Scared of Scorpions: My Year of Hell in the Holy Land

With his Vegas-made music video Palestine, My Heart playing on the radio in Tunisia, songwriter Chauncey Roberts tours Syria for the first time when his movie camera is stolen in February 2010. After numerous meetings with Damascus police--even writing a song as tribute for the chief's young wife--Roberts is advised by the US Embassy to get out of the country at once. And yet the camera theft has triggered a downward spiral when, tumbling over the brink of disaster, Roberts pushes onward to...