Hamouda, Lamisse,

The shape of dust : a father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him / Lamisse Hamouda with Hazem Hamouda. - 388 pages ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

An incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust is a haunting appraisal of the way Australia treats its citizens, both at home and abroad. In 2018, on his way to a family holiday in Cairo, Australian-Egyptian citizen Hazem Hamouda disappears without warning, going missing somewhere between landing and customs. His eldest daughter, Lamisse, has recently moved to Egypt armed with a scholarship to the American University of Cairo, and overnight her world is turned upside down. With little Arabic and even less legal knowledge, she finds out her father has been arbitrarily arrested. Going up against the notorious Egyptian prison system, Lamisse discovers that the Australian embassy provides shockingly little support to dual citizens arrested abroad.

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Hamouda, Hazem.
Hamouda, Hazem--Family.
Hamouda, Hazem--Imprisonment.
Hamouda, Lamisse.
Hamouda, Lamisse--Family.


‬False arrest‎--‬Egypt.‬
False imprisonment‎--‬Egypt.‬
‬Prisons‎--‬Egypt.
Fathers and daughters.‬
Australians--Egypt.


‬Egypt‎--‬Politics and government‎--‬2011-
Australia--Politics and government.

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