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Naomi Shihab Nye: Habibi (1999) 4 stars

Habibi is a 1997 young adult novel by Naomi Shihab Nye. It tells the story …

Review of 'Habibi' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

beautifully written - a slow moving story punctuated with hiaku-like prose. an secular Arab family moves back to Palestine to reconnect with their family and finds their desire for peace between Jews and Arabs is shared by their matriarch: the grandmother.