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You’ll probably never look at a bananas the same way

Banana Dream by Hasan Namir

May 9, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

What would you do if you name was Mooz? Well, you might do the same thing as the young boy in Banana Dream. You see, his name is a bit unusual and is associated with bananas. And of course, he is teased by his classmates, and envious of his cousins with more traditional names. But when he learns about the meaning of why his parents named him that, which was when his parents were trying to conceive, and having a difficult time, his mother dreamt […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, History Tagged With: Concepts, Daby Zainab Faidhi, family, Hasan Namir, Middle East, people, Places, Social Themes

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:315 · Genres: Children's Books, Cooking/Food, Fiction, History · Tags: Concepts, Daby Zainab Faidhi, family, Hasan Namir, Middle East, people, Places, Social Themes ·
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Daydreams and reality

Shahrzad and the Angry King by Nahid Kazemi

December 20, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Shahrzad and the Angry King is one of those books that I did not know if I liked or not. Now, I am not saying that Nahid Kazemi wrote a bad book, but they did write one of those picture books that has a lot going on and it is not a one time read. Also, I think what I had was only an online sample from Edelweiss, so perhaps some parts were missing. But regardless, there was enough there to really sink my teeth […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health Tagged With: adaptations, Diversity & Multicultural, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Kings and rulers, Middle East, Nahid Kazemi, storytelling

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:613 · Genres: Children's Books, Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Health · Tags: adaptations, Diversity & Multicultural, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Kings and rulers, Middle East, Nahid Kazemi, storytelling ·
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From civil war to safety

Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey by Margriet Ruurs

October 3, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

While the story presented in Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey, is fantastic it is the art that really blew me away. It is an experience book that you must experience on your own, without any real background, to fully understand the delicateness of it all.  Margriet Ruurs found the artwork of Nizar Ali Badr online and found the artist after a lot of twists and turns. Long story short (you can read the story in the book), they collaborated. And Stepping Stones was born. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion Tagged With: Arabic, Emigration & Immigration, English, Margriet Ruurs, Middle East, Nizar Ali Badr, refugees, Syria

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:510 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Religion · Tags: Arabic, Emigration & Immigration, English, Margriet Ruurs, Middle East, Nizar Ali Badr, refugees, Syria ·
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A window

The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown

September 28, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I am starting this review of The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees by Don Brown with this statement: Brown has an agenda with this book, but that is not a bad thing.  It is a complicate book with a complicated theme, yet also, straight forward.  I will add, I have rewritten this review too many times. I was well over 600 words at one point. This book was upsetting, enlightening and a not an all together unpleasant journey, but not one for just anyone. […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult Tagged With: Civil & Human Rights, Don Brown, Emigration & Immigration, Middle East, Politics & Government, refugee, Social Topics, Syria, Syrian refugee crisis

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:495 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Religion, Young Adult · Tags: Civil & Human Rights, Don Brown, Emigration & Immigration, Middle East, Politics & Government, refugee, Social Topics, Syria, Syrian refugee crisis ·
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“No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.”

An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine

August 3, 2022 by ardaigle Leave a Comment

In one word: Hopeful Cannonball Read Bingo Square: Cozy For a few consecutive months, I challenged my work book club to pick its book based on the heritage month (she says, realizing how smug she sounds) and thus, I read this book in April for Arab American Heritage Month. I was wholly unfamiliar with the author but excited to give something international a try. After selecting it for the club, I realized that my public library didn’t have a copy so I put one on […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: an unnecessary woman, arab american heritage month, Beirut, book about books, cbr14bingo, Middle East, national book award finalist, Rabih Alameddine

ardaigle's CBR14 Review No:24 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: an unnecessary woman, arab american heritage month, Beirut, book about books, cbr14bingo, Middle East, national book award finalist, Rabih Alameddine ·
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Hop on the bus, Gus You don’t need to discuss much…just say your ABCs

The Library Bus by Bahram Rahman

July 8, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The Library Bus by Bahram Rahman will see a paperback edition in August of 2022. This story is about how some Afghan girls are able to achieve an education. Once a week, a young girl’s mother, in the dark of the morning, takes a special bus with no seats but a lot of books off to a village and the refugee camp. Pari’s (our young narrator) mother also teaches the children the English alphabet. We, and Pari, learn a little about why this is happening, […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion Tagged With: Afghanistan, Bahram Rahman, Books & Libraries, Diversity & Multicultural, Education, Gabrielle Grimard, Kabul, Middle East, Social Themes, women's studies & history

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:357 · Genres: Children's Books, Fiction, History, Non-Fiction, Religion · Tags: Afghanistan, Bahram Rahman, Books & Libraries, Diversity & Multicultural, Education, Gabrielle Grimard, Kabul, Middle East, Social Themes, women's studies & history ·
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