Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

9 reviews

alexisgarcia's review

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Murder, Torture, Injury/Injury detail, Mass/school shootings, Violence, Blood, Child death, Colonisation, War, Child abuse, Genocide, Grief, Police brutality, Death, Death of parent, and Kidnapping

brynalexa's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Palestine will be free. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Torture, Colonisation, Police brutality, Confinement, Death, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Grief, War, Violence, Gun violence, Hate crime, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Medical content, Medical trauma, Racial slurs, Racism, and Sexual harassment

ednam0dewannabe's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

I have already documented myself about the ongoing g but reading about the first hand experiences and trauma Palestinians are experiencing was something I needed to truly see the truth about the West (no longer proud of being an european).
From the river to the sea!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Kidnapping

lisacanteven's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad

5.0

This book is so full of information that I think we don't have as Westerners. Ahed gives us a first hand account of her time in Israeli prison. She holds nothing back in describing her experiences, and for that I am thankful. Dena also gives us so much true history of Palestine, the history that zionists are trying to erase. This should be required reading so that the true history is not rewritten by zionism. Within these pages, there is such a tender hope. Palestinian girls imprisoned create bonds that help them survive their time. They create gentles systems so that they all have each other. These girls and women who are detained even protest in prison when needed. I think that blew my mind the most. There was one line where Ahed recalls a protest they had in prison bc they were not being provided with what they needed. The female prisoners refused to leave their cells, and Ahed commented about how if the male prisoners caught wind of their protest they would join in solidarity. This was a problem for Israel because they could not appear to lose control of their captives, so the Israeli jailers usually gave in to their protests quickly. And that is why Palestinian men are just as important as the women and children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Islamophobia, Ableism, Colonisation, Confinement, Genocide, Grief, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, and War

kalmia31's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Death, Gore, Medical trauma, Violence, Torture, Confinement, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Colonisation, Grief, Bullying, Religious bigotry, Child death, Kidnapping, War, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Child abuse, Classism, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Racism

Moderate: Gaslighting, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit, Cancer, Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, and Antisemitism

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Police brutality, War, Torture, Colonisation, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical content, Racism, Violence, Death, Blood, Genocide, Gore, Murder, Physical abuse, Child abuse, and Child death

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

murve's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Death, Colonisation, Xenophobia, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Genocide, Confinement, Kidnapping, Islamophobia, Torture, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Police brutality, and Physical abuse

redthistle's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Xenophobia, Racism, Physical abuse, Gun violence, Genocide, Dysphoria, Violence, Kidnapping, Death, Police brutality, Torture, War, Child abuse, and Emotional abuse

readingwithkaitlyn's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War, Death, Blood, Grief, Colonisation, Genocide, Torture, Police brutality, Murder, Confinement, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Body horror, and Hate crime

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Medical content, Medical trauma, Islamophobia, Child death, Suicide, Vomit, and Kidnapping

Minor: Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Excrement, Religious bigotry, Pedophilia, Antisemitism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Classism, Rape, Animal death, and Racism