Dave Eggers on Zeitoun.
Zeitoun by Dave Eggars
You should buy this and read it right now. Incredible and heartbreaking, but impossible to put down.
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun, a prosperous Syrian-American and father of four, chose to stay through the storm to protect his house and contracting business. In the days after, he traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. But, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared
