You could divide three days in damascus schultz absorbing memoir into two different awakenings pre and post damascus both of which presented her with existential questions who am i what am i made of why am i here to try to answer which awakening was more consequential rings of a false equivalency as each one pre or post was different in form and content the post damascus awakening could not have happened without a pre damascus period the latter was the reason she had . Three days in damascus is a memoir about a three year fight for a chance at love with an iraqi refugee the author met in syria while travelling to jordan lebanon and syria to interview iraqi refugees and hear some of their stories kim never expected to fall in love with one of them but that is exactly what happened this is the story of one american woman and one iraqi man set against the backdrop of the iraqi refugee crisis through actual iraqi refugee interviews a . Three days in damascus is a memoir about a three year fight for a chance at love with an iraqi refugee the author met in syria while travelling to jordan lebanon and syria to interview iraqi refugees and hear some of their stories kim never expected to fall in love with one of them but that is exactly what happened this is the story of one american woman and one iraqi man set against the backdrop of the iraqi refugee crisis through actual iraqi refugee interviews a