And at the National Book Awards this week, Eggers appears to flat-out flee from a question about Zeitoun, as seen in this YouTube video in which he deftly negotiates a crowd to escape a trailing ...

Eggers' 2009 book about Abdulrahman Zeitoun, known around the city for his eponymous house-painting business, tells the story of Zeitoun's time in the city, ...

Abdulrahman Zeitoun was charged Wednesday in New Orleans with soliciting the murder of his ex-wife, son and another man. Zeitoun was the hero of Dave Eggers’ 2009 book, “Zeitoun,” which ...

Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the hero of Dave Eggers’ award-winning nonfiction book ‘Zeitoun,’ was arrested last year in New Orleans in a domestic abuse incident, The Smoking Gun has learned.

In the days after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, Abdulrahman Zeitoun slept in a tent on the roof of his Victorian home. He was mostly alone; his wife, Kathy, and their children had ...

What happened to Zeitoun and his family over the next month is an extraordinary story, related by Dave Eggers, a skilled practitioner of literary non-fiction, with both dramatic flair and domestic ...

Zeitoun is a nonfiction book written by Dave Eggers and published by McSweeney's in 2009. It tells the story of Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the Syrian-American owner of a painting and contracting company ...