Growing Up in Saudi Arabia (Growing Up Around the World)
by Barbara Sheen
Saudi Arabia is a wealthy Muslim nation that is both very modern and extremely traditional. Finding balance between the modern world and traditional values is a part of almost every young Saudi s life. Featured are an overview of the country as well as insights into how Saudi youth experience home and family, education and work, social life, and more.
Soon to be a major film, produced by Steven Spielberg and J. J. Abrams.This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was deliberately capsized, and of those five hundred people, eleven survived; they were rescued four days after the boat sank. Doaa was one of them - her fiance Bassem, with whom she had fled, was not; he drowned in front of her. Melissa Fleming, the...
Badeeah Hassan was just 18 when she witnessed firsthand the horrors of the 2014 genocide of the Ezidi people by ISIS forces. Captured by ISIS, known locally as Daesh, Badeeah was among hundreds forced into a brutal human trafficking network made up of women and girls of Ezidi ethnicity, a much-persecuted minority culture of Iraq. Badeeah’s story takes her to Syria where she is sold to a high-ranking ISIS commander known as Al Amriki, the American, kept as a house slave, raped, and routinely assa...
This is a story written by a mother whose children are in Saudi Arabia. Norah the daughter tells the story about the conditions, history and plight of she and her brother, Ali. "When Will My Mommy Come?" is filled of rich history, customs and traditions of Arabia. It tells of their lifestyle, religious practices, educational training, traveling experiences in America and Arabia with their maternal and fraternal families. Norah takes you on an adventure as she and Ali struggle to survive without...
Sisters of the War: Two Remarkable True Stories of Survival and Hope in Syria (Scholastic Focus)
by Rania Abouzeid