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A review by domskeac
They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi
5.0
I had the honor of visiting Tamimi’s family home while she was in prison and got to meet and talk with her father and her cousin Janna, who she mentions fondly in this book.
Tamimi was an inspiration to me then and is an inspiration to me now having read this. It reminds me of Assata Shakur’s autobiography in its radical descriptions of incarceration and resistance behind bars. I was enamored with Tamimi’s descriptions of the ways in which Palestinian women went about educating each other, through political and formal education.
I read this during the 6th month of the genocide in Gaza, during which Tamimi had been incarcerated again. (As I write this, she has been released.) May we all work toward the free Palestine Ahed Tamimi writes about and dreams about and works toward herself each day.
Tamimi was an inspiration to me then and is an inspiration to me now having read this. It reminds me of Assata Shakur’s autobiography in its radical descriptions of incarceration and resistance behind bars. I was enamored with Tamimi’s descriptions of the ways in which Palestinian women went about educating each other, through political and formal education.
I read this during the 6th month of the genocide in Gaza, during which Tamimi had been incarcerated again. (As I write this, she has been released.) May we all work toward the free Palestine Ahed Tamimi writes about and dreams about and works toward herself each day.