Zeitoun

真人真事：一个中东裔商人在卡特里娜飓风中划着小艇四处救人，最后却被联邦政府毫无理由地长时间拘禁和虐待，凸显了面临危急情况时宪法赋予人民权利的脆弱性。《Zeitoun》通过Zeitoun被不公对待的事件，让读者了解美国少数族裔被歧视的严重。

Dave Eggers’ first book, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Since then he’s written two more novels and launched an independent publishing house, which publishes books, a quarterly literary journal (McSweeney’s), a DVD-based review of short films (Wholpin), a monthly magazine (The Believer) and the Voice of Witness project. Meanwhile, Eggers has established himself as a philanthropist and teacher-at-large. In 1998 he launched 826 Valencia, a San Francisco-based writing and tutoring lab for young people, which has since opened six more chapters across the United States. He has extended his advocacy of students by supporting their educators, instituting a monthly grant for exceptional Bay Area teachers. His TED Prize wish is for more poeple to follow him into getting involved in your local school -- and talk about it -- through the website Once Upon a School.