The Last Moderate Muslim Author:Osama Wazan Inspired by a true story, the sole survivor of the Black Saturday massacre, young Ziad Hadhari vows vengeance against the Christian perpetrators in Lebanon's civil war. But when the vigilante Othman orders Ziad to murder innocent Christian students, he cannot shoot. His father beats him for cowardice. Ziad falls in love with Sophia, a Wester... more »nized Christian whose family plans to emigrate to America. Fundamentalist enforcers drag Ziad and Sophia from his car and chop off their hair. As wartime Beirut devolves into a hell where feral dogs feed on corpses in the streets, Ziad vows to follow his traumatized girlfriend to the US. Many thousands apply for visas, but precious few are granted. Will the American gatekeepers admit Ziad to the States, or is he doomed to the violent insanity of his homeland?« less