Born at the Gates of Hell

An OB-GYN at the center of the Syrian refugee crisis recounts 9 grueling months at the al-Hol refugee camp—a place of violence and murder, love and survival Imagine what it’s like to be pregnant and give birth—or to try to care for and protect a family in the middle of hopelessness? This book is not about politics. It is about individual human beings in a dry, barren landscape. Up to 75,000 people at a time—mostly women, babies, and children—live for years in tents and have no prospect