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 ...

Zeitoun was not the only person falsely arrested after Katrina -- perhaps the most famous is Lance Madison, who was booked with shooting at police on the Danziger Bridge -- but parts of the book ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zeitoun woke with the sun and crawled out of his tent. The day was bright, and as far as he could see in any direction the city was underwater. Though every resident of New Orleans imagines great ...

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 ...