Abdulrahman Zeitoun, 54, sat quietly in jail scrubs and running shoes on Thursday, watching his ex-wife cover her face and weep before composing herself to testify at a bond reduction hearing.

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 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 ...