lonesomelovee's reviews
556 reviews

My People Shall Live: Autobiography of a Revolutionary as Told to George Hajjar by Leila Khaled

5.0

Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

4.0

This book was so simple yet so profound, literally bringing to life a mother’s grief in the form of another being 

Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi

3.0

Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City by Heather Ann Thompson

3.5

The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s by Pamela E. Pennock

3.0

Another read for my research lollll but I thought this provided a good foundation for understanding the rise of the Arab American left. Learned lots of new info about the history of Arab organizing in the u.s. but I wish the author engaged with the history past chronicling its timeline— a more in-depth critique and analysis felt to be missing. also wish it continued and analyzed its pitfalls since, esp bc before oct 7 23 Arab American organizing outside of the basic non profit social service model has, from my view, disappeared

Good Girl by Aria Aber

5.0

shoutout to reem for letting me lend the advanced readers copy sunny gifted her… honestly can already say this will be the, if not one of, top reads of mine for this year. aber’s poetry background is very evident in this, every word carefully chosen and holding up the rest of the book in its own way. I hope she writes more fiction bc this was incredible. 

The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit by Sara Safransky

5.0

read 4 my research but sooooo good… excellent look at property and citizenship 

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

5.0

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman

4.0

Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by Marc Lamont Hill, Mitchell Plitnick

4.0