#nahr

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Nahr Abu Ali river in Tripoli, Lebanon

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Valley of the Nahr al-Kalb River in Lebanon

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Everybody has a little bit of love for the same sex, some people more than others. ... But I'm saying that strict heterosexuality is probably a small minority of humanity. If you take society and religion out of the equation, we're probably all a little homo.

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Against the Loveless World (Chapter: Um Buraq) by Susan Abulhawa

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Palestinians learned the first time in 1948 that leaving to save your life meant you would lose everything and could never go back.

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Against the Loveless World (Chapter: Dance, Ruby River) by Susan Abulhawa

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Book Chat: Against the Loveless World

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As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.

ISBN: 9781526618801 (2020) | Source: Goodreads

Nothing I Expected

When I first picked this book up, it was because I wanted to support the author. Knowing this was literary fiction, I had an inkling I might not enjoy it as much as when I read other types of fiction. However, I was completely taken aback when I finished this book and realised Against the Loveless World is a 5-star read for me.

Abulhawa writes in a way where it's easy for the readers to understand everything she is trying to put into the book. This book sings like a calm melodic tune but tells the tale of horrendous happenings.

Yes, this book is fiction but it reads like a memoir. Knowing everything that happened to Nahr was not everything Abulhawa experienced does not take away how harrowing reading about all those events was. Why? Because even though this story might not tell the real story of one person, it's a combination of many real stories of many individuals. So what if there is not one person who suffered like Nahr exactly? Suffering is still suffering, big or small.

Against the Loveless World is not an educational text. Do not read this book hoping to learn everything about that side of history. Although, feel free to read it as a snippet of an introduction to the history.

Rating: ★★★★★

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Nahr al-Kabir river by Beirut, Lebanon

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Eidul Adha or Yaumul Nahr — Dr Zakir Naik Live Q&A by Dr Zakir Naik ADZ7-4-4

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Takbīrs after the prayers and in general on the day of 'Arafah, 'Eid Al-Adhā and the days Tashreeq―by Al-Imām Ibn Bāz (Allah's mercy be upon him)

Article: Takbīrs after the prayers and in general on the day of 'Arafah, 'Eid Al-Adhā and the days Tashreeq―by Al-Imām Ibn Bāz (Allah's mercy be upon him).

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