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Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West
Delacorte
December 2005
368 pages
ISBN: 055380393X
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama,
Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey
along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from
Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-
American Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has
managed to do–as he enters the world of Muslim migrants and
tells their extraordinary stories of hope for a new life in
the West.
In a tent city in Greece, they huddle together. Men and
women from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, and other
countries. Most have survived war and brutal imprisonment,
political and social persecution. Some have faced each
other in battle, and all share a powerful desire for
freedom. Behzad Yaghmaian lived among them, listened to
their hopes, dreams, and fears–and now he weaves together
dozens of their stories of yearning, persecution, and
unwavering faith. We meet Uncle Suleiman, an Iraqi veteran
of the Iran-Iraq war; once imprisoned by Saddam Hussein, he
is now a respected elder of a ramshackle tent city in
Athens, offering comfort and community to his fellow
travelers…Purya, who fled Iran only to fall into the
clutches of human smugglers and survive beatings and
torture in Bulgaria…and Shahroukh Khan, an Afghan teenager
whose world at home was shattered twice–once by the Taliban
and again by American bombs–but whose story turns on a
single moment of awakening and love in the courtyard of a
Turkish mosque. A chronicle of husbands separated from wives, children from
parents, Embracing the Infidel is a portrait of men and
women moving toward a promised land they may never reach–
and away from a world to which they cannot return. It is an
unforgettable tale of heartbreak and prejudice, courage,
heroism, and hope.
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