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A review by eitch
Love from Mecca to Medina by S.K. Ali
2.0
This was cute but it dragged a lot, to be quite honest. I didn't enjoy it as much as the first.
It felt like in most chapters, the artefacts mentioned in the title and their interpretive labels didn't actually make it into the chapter itself, and I ended up forgetting what they were. Some could even be switched around and it would still make more sense as they were actually mentioned in the chapter, but overall there was no connection there in my opinion.
And because it's not a Hanine book review unless I dwell on the details, I have two things to point out/ask:
- why did Adam have to travel from Qatar to London to then go to Saudi Arabia? Have you seen a map of the Arabian Peninsula? the two countries literally share a border and they were fighting like 4 years ago over it.
- why did the author choose to write the prophet's name Abraham instead of Ibrahim?
I'm nitpicky, I know. It's still a nice book nonetheless.
It felt like in most chapters, the artefacts mentioned in the title and their interpretive labels didn't actually make it into the chapter itself, and I ended up forgetting what they were. Some could even be switched around and it would still make more sense as they were actually mentioned in the chapter, but overall there was no connection there in my opinion.
And because it's not a Hanine book review unless I dwell on the details, I have two things to point out/ask:
- why did Adam have to travel from Qatar to London to then go to Saudi Arabia? Have you seen a map of the Arabian Peninsula? the two countries literally share a border and they were fighting like 4 years ago over it.
- why did the author choose to write the prophet's name Abraham instead of Ibrahim?
I'm nitpicky, I know. It's still a nice book nonetheless.