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hesticht's review against another edition
challenging
dark
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hopeful
informative
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medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Child death, Medical trauma, and War
Moderate: Grief
lisamck's review against another edition
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4.0
mcquaden's review
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5.0
This is a hard read. Hearing about what happened in Gaza almost 20 years ago, and then seeing it repeated more than tenfold now is devestating. His optimism is inspiring, and his perseverance for not only peace but justice for his people is incredible. More people, particularly leaders, would do well by reading this book. It's also a hard lesson in how propaganda and corrupt leadership can lead an entire peoples against one another, on both sides.
Keep calling and emailing your repsentatives for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine!
Keep calling and emailing your repsentatives for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine!
septemberheartflakes's review against another edition
3.0
"But Izzeldin directs his anger in a focused way, never spreading it wide and letting the anger overwhelm and distract him from where he should be going"
This book is an self-written autobiography of Dr. Izzeldin's life. He was raised in Jabalia camp as a refugee and with grit and faith, got to further his studies in medicine. He soon became a doctor in Israel. This is not fiction, this is his life. You will realise it is made from more tragedy than laughter, but this is their life.
You will follow Dr. Izzeldin as he grew up, as he spent chapters describing how hard it was to cross borders, how horrible Israel soldiers treated them.
My hands shook when I read this. I was filled with so much anger and sadness it boils in me. But the writer kept pushing the idea of how he refused to hate. That he will continue to fight for his loved ones and correcting injustics without hate consuming him.
May Allah ease our brothers and sisters in Palestine.
celinegaghadar's review against another edition
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4.0
daniellekat's review against another edition
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sad
fast-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Grief, Child death, War, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, and Racism
Moderate: Cancer, Blood, and Medical content
jenniferstringer's review against another edition
4.0
Wow. If ever I think I have problems, all I have to do is go back and reread this book. What an amazing man. I give it four stars because I think the story will stay with me, even if it's not fantastically written. Furthermore, I while I so admire this man's refusal to hate, I really want to know how he found the conviction to do so. I am sure he would say his faith inspires him; but faith has inspired suicide bombers and Westboro crazies as well as Martin Luther King, Jr and Mahatma Gandhi. He also believes his children's deaths were part of God's plan, and I just can't imagine anything divine with that kind of cruelty, but somehow he's found peace with it. I 100% agree with him that peace in the middle east is not going to come when agreement can be reached over a few square meters of land, but when people come together in community and share in the common good as neighbors, seeing the humanity in each other.