Aug

18 2021

Virtual Taste of Ann Katz Festival: Daniel Levin

8:00AM - 10:00AM  

Zoom-Virtual/Online

Contact Lev Rothenberg
317-715-9233
lrothenberg@jccindy.org

A link and password to join the live Zoom program will be sent to you two days, two hours and ten minutes before the program. This means ticket sales will end 15 minutes prior to the event.

About the Book
Daniel Levin was at his office in New York when he got a call from an acquaintance with an urgent, cryptic request to meet in Paris. A young man had gone missing in Syria. No government, embassy, or intelligence agency would help. Could he? Would he? This begins the suspenseful, shocking and at times brutal true-life story, PROOF OF LIFE: TWENTY DAYS ON THE HUNT FOR A MISSING PERSON IN THE MIDDLE EAST, that finds Levin, a lawyer turned armed-conflict negotiator, navigating the seedy and dangerous underbelly of the Middle East, where he encounters powerful sheiks, drug lords and sex traffickers in pursuit of the truth.

Over the course of 20 intense days, Levin barters and negotiates his way through Istanbul, Beirut, Amman and Dubai on a quest to find a young man who disappeared under suspicious circumstances. This dangerous journey brings him into contact with the shadowy world of the underground war economy where everything is for sale, and he sees first-hand the power of the industries that endlessly fuel these conflicts—the trade of cash, goods, weapons, drugs and, most devastatingly, people.

About the Author
The son of a diplomat, Daniel Levin spent his early years in the Middle East and in Africa and then trained as a lawyer. Currently a board member of the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, he has, for the past 20 years, worked with governments and development institutions worldwide, focusing on economic development and political reform through financial literacy, political inclusion, and constitutional initiatives. He is also engaged in track 3 diplomacy and mediation efforts in war zones. Levin’s first book, NOTHING BUT A CIRCUS: MISADVENTURES AMONG THE POWERFUL, was published in Germany, Japan, Russia and the UK. PROOF OF LIFE is his first book to be published in the United States. He lives outside New York City.
Presented in partnership with the JCC Literary Consortium.
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