COMMITTEE OF ONE - Tecno-Libro

?When i married a retired hydrologist, i had no idea how our travels to the Middle East would change my perspective. initially interested in the fine crafts of the area, i was led to Leila Wahbeh. The day i met her was the day my life changed forever. Her story unfolds with her family s flight from Jerusalem to Egypt in 1947 to avoid the terrors of the war with israel, and their return four years later to find they had lost everything. Despite suffering terrible hardships and deprivations, Leila finishes school and marries a doctor. All goes well until the 1967 War. Her husband, because he renders aid to war victims, is deported, leaving Leila and their four children in Jerusalem as pawns for his good behavior and hers. Despite the probability of her own imprisonment, with circumstances weighed against her, she continues her crusade for the poor. Leila moves mountains of red tape in her efforts to transform the helpless into the helpful. You ll meet, as i did during our stays, some of the people whose di