A review by emanon_
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi

5.0

I’m happy I picked this book up and I’m happy it turned out better than expected. I’ve had experiences of reading about Arabs and Muslims in a somewhat negative way and I won’t lie, I wasn’t looking forward to yet another book of that sort.

The way Moustafa got to retell each person’ story was beautiful. 

Rasha - I honestly wanted to punch someone after reading this

Sami - it opened up a different perspective to how someone can be patriotic and in conflict with their loyalty due to their upbringing

Yasmin - I don’t think I would’ve ever been as resilient to a situation like this one

Akram - this one had a mage that made my blood boil

Lina - it’s a weird one because it somehow felt like it hit close to home while it definitely doesn’t

Omar - this was an unfair one, the dude is obviously good

Rami - he’s so far away from my reality that I almost couldn’t believe that this is someone’s real life story

This makes no sense but I don’t need it to👌🏼