Reviews tagging 'Kidnapping'

They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom by Dena Takruri, Ahed Tamimi

11 reviews

zombiezami's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Misogyny, Vomit, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Mental illness and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

jartone93's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad tense fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, War, and Classism

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark emotional informative sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

brynalexa's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

Palestine will be free. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Medical trauma, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and War

ednam0dewannabe's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

5.0

I have already documented myself about the ongoing g but reading about the first hand experiences and trauma Palestinians are experiencing was something I needed to truly see the truth about the West (no longer proud of being an european).
From the river to the sea!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, and Colonisation

Moderate: Violence, Blood, Police brutality, and War

Minor: Death, Kidnapping, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

lisacanteven's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad

5.0

This book is so full of information that I think we don't have as Westerners. Ahed gives us a first hand account of her time in Israeli prison. She holds nothing back in describing her experiences, and for that I am thankful. Dena also gives us so much true history of Palestine, the history that zionists are trying to erase. This should be required reading so that the true history is not rewritten by zionism. Within these pages, there is such a tender hope. Palestinian girls imprisoned create bonds that help them survive their time. They create gentles systems so that they all have each other. These girls and women who are detained even protest in prison when needed. I think that blew my mind the most. There was one line where Ahed recalls a protest they had in prison bc they were not being provided with what they needed. The female prisoners refused to leave their cells, and Ahed commented about how if the male prisoners caught wind of their protest they would join in solidarity. This was a problem for Israel because they could not appear to lose control of their captives, so the Israeli jailers usually gave in to their protests quickly. And that is why Palestinian men are just as important as the women and children. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Colonisation, and War

kalmia31's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Colonisation, War, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Cancer, Slavery, Vomit, Antisemitism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

caseythereader's review

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic

murve's review

emotional informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Grief, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

redthistle's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Kidnapping, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and War