The Bees Road
By Rami Ollaik
- ISBN: 978-9953-596-00-6
- ISBN: 978-9953-596-01-3 (ebook)
- Date of publishing: 2013
- Language: English
- Size: medium
- Pages: 395
The Bees Road is the story of a man’s path through the South of Lebanon, as a child soldier with Hezbollah. His plight with the Party of God begins to take a turn when he finds other ways to stop the war in his country.
In an inspirational journey from war-torn South Lebanon to a detention cell at JFK airport, The Bees Road traces a man’s rough path which leaves him a traitor to Hezbollah and a suspected terrorist to the United States. A child soldier rises to the top echelons of Hezbollah before he decides, after twelve years, to rid himself of his haunting fundamentalist past and pursue his ultimate goal of personal freedom. In the land of ‘The Great Satin’ he attends university and falls in love with what America stands for, until the fateful events of September 11. The resulting national paranoia pushes him into confrontation with the FBI, blackmail and unwarranted deportation from the U.S. With mixed feelings of love, betrayal, fear, hope, and devastating heartbreak he moves to teaching beekeeping at the American University of Beirut, filled with the urge to rid Lebanon of bigotry and unite the nation as a whole.