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    Summary and Analysis of Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial: Based on the Book by Rabia Chaudry
    Summary and Analysis of Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial: Based on the Book by Rabia Chaudry
    Summary and Analysis of Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial: Based on the Book by Rabia Chaudry
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    Summary and Analysis of Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial: Based on the Book by Rabia Chaudry

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Adnan’s Story tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Rabia Chaudry’s book.
     
    Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. 
    This short summary and analysis of Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry includes:
     
    • Historical context
    • Chapter-by-chapter summaries
    • Detailed timeline of key events
    • Profiles of the main characters
    • Important quotes
    • Fascinating trivia
    • Glossary of terms
    • Supporting material to enhance your understanding of the original work
     
    About Adnan’s Story by Rabia Chaudry:
     
    By listening to the wildly popular, award-winning podcast Serial, readers may be familiar with the case against Adnan Syed, alleged to have murdered his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee in 1999. But Serial didn’t tell the whole story.
     
    In the New York Times bestseller Adnan’s Story, author, lawyer, and Syed family friend Rabia Chaudry presents compelling new information, dismantling the state’s case against Adnan Syed, one piece of evidence at a time. 
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateDec 13, 2016
    ISBN9781504043366
    Summary and Analysis of Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial: Based on the Book by Rabia Chaudry
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      Summary and Analysis of Adnan's Story - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Rabia Chaudry

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      Many readers may be familiar with the case of Adnan Syed and the murder of his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee from the groundbreaking investigative podcast Serial, hosted and produced by This American Life producer Sarah Koenig. Listeners became instantly hooked on this Peabody Award–winning podcast, and quickly split into guilty and not guilty camps.

      A fascination with true crime, as evidenced by the popularity of Serial and of the documentary series Making a Murderer, combined with the advent of Web sleuthing (citizens undertaking their own investigations online), has overtaken American pop culture in recent years. On websites like Reddit and on personal blogs, members of the public have involved themselves in controversial cases in search of the truth when it seems that law enforcement is not up to the task.

      While author Rabia Chaudry is critical of some of Sarah Koenig’s methods of investigation, she is clearly grateful for the spotlight that Koenig shined on Syed’s case, because it raised awareness of the murder and resulted in more helpful amateur sleuths coming on board. Their help was invaluable in uncovering the evidence that convinced a judge to order a new trial for Adnan Syed.

      The terror attacks of September 11, 2001, changed many Americans’ attitudes toward followers of Islam. It may be worth noting that they occured while Adnan Syed, a Muslim, was in the midst of a fight to overturn his conviction for murdering his ex-girlfriend in 1999.

      The Syed case has been drawn out over nearly two decades in a legal climate rife with racial bias, wrongful convictions, and flaws in law enforcement and the judicial system. As we learn in this book, the Innocence Project, an organization that fights to exonerate wrongfully convicted people, took on Syed’s case. The group’s involvement remained secret for some time.

      At the close of 2016, Adnan Syed awaits a new trial and has asked to be released on bail. Syed’s attorney, Justin Brown, argued that Syed should be freed after 17 years of imprisonment due to an unconstitutional verdict. Meanwhile, prosecutors in Maryland compiled a brief stating that Syed is undeserving of a new trial and that the court was pressured into ordering one by the media attention focused on his case. Syed’s camp stands firm, believing that if prosecutors

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