| Suddenly, towards the end of the book, this Sharon guy is transformed into someone who attends Mahmoud Darwish's poetry nights! At one point in the novel, Ichmad tells his brother, Abbas, who was by then in Gaza and part of a "terrorist organization", that he should move with him to the US, where he can be safer | Ichmad is a genius, and he manages to get a scholarship at the Hebrew University, and continues his success in life surrounded by family and friends, both Palestinians and Israelis |
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| We see this professor at the beginning of the book as a strong opponent to Arabs and Palestinians, and he hates them so much, that he was not willing to accept Ichmad as a student of his despite the fact the he is a genius | I salute the author's efforts, but would say that she should be careful when writing about such an important part in history |
I also have a lot of friends who come from different parts of Palestine, and I have never heard the name Ahmed spelled as "Ichmad.
| And of course they are both representing Israel | Thank you very much because not only you made these kids feel better, but you also made us feel much better |
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| Let's now move to the character structure, and stay with the Menachem Sharon example | This book motivates you to read it till the end, but unfortunately, has a number of faults and story lines that just do not make any sense, and make the book look like a fairy tale rather than a novel depicting a long time conflict and actually a very serious one |
Ichmad goes to the US later in his life to continue his studies and work on a project with Sharon.
| With this kind of writing, it gets very tricky | Ayah showed me her pictures with the wonderful host family taking care of her, and she shared with me the memories sh'll carry back home |
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| Her smile reminds you of the clear sky in Palestine and the real colors of earth |
Before going in to more details about the book and reviewing it, I was not sure whether to write it from a neutral book reviewer point of view, or from a Palestinian book reviewer point of view.
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