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We Are Palestinian: A Celebration of Culture and Tradition by Reem Kassis
informative
medium-paced
4.5
4.5 Stars
CAWPILE = 7.89
While I felt that this gave us a little misinformation as it stated that it was Palestinian people versus Jewish people multiple times when you can't really compare a country's people to people of a worldwide religion and in doing so it erases part of the identity of the 13% of Palestinians who are also Jewish. That and the fact that some of the illustrations could have benefited from annotations so the reader knew what they were representing as there was more than one illustration on some of the pages. A pronunciation guide would have been a nice thing to include too as I don't like to mispronounce things and as this is marketed at middle-grade children it could have aided them in learning the correct pronunciation from the beginning.
Those things aside the book does a really good job at giving you a glimpse into what it means to be Palestinian and things that are of cultural significance to the people and the country. While it does cover the hardships that the country has endured it mainly focused on things like the country's food, cinema, music, literature, crafts and main religions. It's given me lots of things to look up and it's good at a reminder of the humanity behind the too-often skewed reporting by the western world's media.
Emetophobia notes: I found this to be free of triggers for emetophobic people.
CAWPILE = 7.89
While I felt that this gave us a little misinformation as it stated that it was Palestinian people versus Jewish people multiple times when you can't really compare a country's people to people of a worldwide religion and in doing so it erases part of the identity of the 13% of Palestinians who are also Jewish. That and the fact that some of the illustrations could have benefited from annotations so the reader knew what they were representing as there was more than one illustration on some of the pages. A pronunciation guide would have been a nice thing to include too as I don't like to mispronounce things and as this is marketed at middle-grade children it could have aided them in learning the correct pronunciation from the beginning.
Those things aside the book does a really good job at giving you a glimpse into what it means to be Palestinian and things that are of cultural significance to the people and the country. While it does cover the hardships that the country has endured it mainly focused on things like the country's food, cinema, music, literature, crafts and main religions. It's given me lots of things to look up and it's good at a reminder of the humanity behind the too-often skewed reporting by the western world's media.
Emetophobia notes: I found this to be free of triggers for emetophobic people.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, War
Minor: Murder, Injury/Injury detail