Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

99 reviews

pjb314's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Violence, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Colonisation, and War

karissabubble's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A

4.0

This was a really tough read. Full of feelings of anxiety, reflections on past and present, along with the fear of th  possibilities of harm Palestinian women in particular face and have faced. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Islamophobia, Murder, and War

potion96's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

laurynkelly's review

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Rape, Torture, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Gun violence and Grief

Minor: Islamophobia

This is a well written text about a Palestinian journalist who tries to uncover the story of young Arab girl who was killed by Israeli soldiers in 1948. It contextualises the Palestinian struggle well and is an important and informative read for our current times. Shibli viscerally portrays the trauma that war and genocide can have on humans.

kteq's review against another edition

challenging sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Murder, Colonisation, and War

Moderate: Xenophobia and Islamophobia

annamay1021's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Confinement, Genocide, Gun violence, Rape, Sexual violence, Police brutality, and Islamophobia

caia_in_wonderland's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This is the minor detail of the bigger picture that was the occupation of Palestine by the Israelis.
It is the day to day of an Israeli soldier making drills and rounds on the Egyptian border with the Negev desert in 1949, after the Nakba. And, it’s the day to day, in the present time, of supremely traumatised Palestinian woman, living in an almost suspended reality, a painful non-existence, and who finds herself haunted by a gang rape that happened exactly 25 years before her being born, and that minor detail leads her to try and find more about it.
These two stories are connected by that minor detail, and describe with intense, painful and disturbing candidness the reality in which the Palestinians live today.
I felt disturbed for most of the reading, as the narrative and the way it’s written make it impossible not to feel as if you’re living it.
It’s unbelievable what the Palestinians have and have had to withstand. #freePalestine

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Rape and Violence

Minor: War

tatyana_'s review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual violence, Violence, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Murder, and War

Moderate: Rape and Kidnapping

Minor: Vomit

bookish_panda's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, Rape, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Murder, and War

rosie135790's review

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

4.0

so I believe the old woman and the girl we see in the end or the same girl in the beginning. Also once we found out that this was a military shooting area, I thought they would use her as target practice. Then when she put her hand in her pocket for gum I was like well she is going to die now. Then she did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Gun violence, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Islamophobia, Murder, and Sexual harassment