pickSuper! Fantastic read for ages 10 - 14 years. An important read in today's world ... raising compassionate young adults 🧡
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pickSuper! Fantastic read for ages 10 - 14 years. An important read in today's world ... raising compassionate young adults 🧡
so-soTo ease back into my Litsy Buddy reads, I chose this for #FoodAndLit this month, since we‘re focusing on Syria. I went the audiobook route and was a little disappointed. It‘s a kids book so my expectations weren‘t unrealistic. It‘s set in London and focuses on a group of students who befriend a young Syrian refugee boy named Ahmet. It‘s a little too syrupy sweet for my tastes, but good for kids to read. My complaint lies with the audiobook ⬇️
Reading the Luzumiyat (Les Impératifs : poèmes de l'ascèse) by Al-Ma'arri, the #Syrian medieval poet who is having a bit of a moment right now thanks to his “vegan poem“. Had I known this earlier, I wouldn't have paired this book w/ a Syrian beef, carrot, pea and tomato stew (Bazalia ou Ruz)... We ate bulghur with it, then cardamom-flavoured yogurt w/ dried apricot & pistachios in orange blossom water.
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I've been eating lunch from the tagged #Syria cookbook all week for #FoodandLit. As I am feeling too lazy to plate it properly, here is a picture of my many lunch containers. 😆
Itsch Salad – Bulgar Salad
Baklava (store bought)
Shorbat adas – Red Lentil Soup
Lob el kossa – Zucchini with Garlic and Mint
Foul ma‘ala – Fava Beans with Cilantro and Garlic
Zahra – Spicy Roasted Cauliflower
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Les hirondelles se sont envolées avant nous (Swallows fled before us) is a great poetry collection by #Syrian poet Hala Mohammad.
It contains a poem titled “Cardamome“ (Cardamom) with the lines
A présent tu bois ton café
Ainsi descendit la révélation de la cardamome
Ainsi la pluie tomba sur terre
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pick#NovemberNarrative Day 30: A lot of #Cooking in this story. With the help of her new friends from the Welcome Center, Salma will make foul shami! While I confess to not having tasted this dish yet, I was very moved by how the entire community in this small center came together to find all the ingredients Salma needed to hear her mother‘s laughter once again. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-njG
Absolutely loved Nowhere Boy. A forged friendship of two boys, one of whom is a Syrian refugee all alone in Belgium amid the 2015 terrorist attacks in France. Tropical Secrets, a more lyrical narrative, highlights a friendship of a Cuban girl and Jewish refugee while the island experiences turbulent times of WWII. #middlegrademarch #MGMarch
so-soAs the daughter of a child refugee, I find books about child refugees tough. I liked parts of this one - especially the friendship between the two boys, but it turns my stomach when books like these become page turning adventure stories and I felt like this one tried to toward the end. I‘m also kind of over the ‘white person learns and grows by helping a person of colour‘ narrative.
