Does My Head Look Big In This?
Last week I asked the readers to give me suggestions of books in order to write reviews about, and one of the first suggestions was to write a book review of ‘Ten Things I Hate About Me’ by Randa Abdel-Fattah and because I am still find it hard to locate that book I thought why not write a book review for the first book Randal Abdel-Fattah wrote, Does My Head Look Big In This?
Randa Abdel-Fattah is an Australian- born-Muslim-Palestinian-Egyptian. Her main motto in writing is to allow readers to enter the world of the average Muslim teenage girl and see past the headlines and stereotypes.
Amal a 16 year old teenage Muslim Palestinian girl who has been in Australia all her life decides to wear the Hijab full-time (not just in the Islamic school or at the mosque but everywhere) and what she has to do in order to fit in year eleven, where she is the only one in her school wearing the Hijab and the choices she has to make to cope with prejudice, maintain and help friends and attract the cutest boy in school.
The book helps us feel how hard it is for a girl to be wearing the Hijab in the western society, how hard it is to tell the cutest boy in school you like to back-off because you can’t date. And how hard it to be in a school where guys won’t understand why a simple hug is strictly prohibited or how girls just won’t get why you are covering yourself up from head to toe but still try to match your outfit. However, it helps many girls living in a different culture to be strong and with a lot of determination and self-esteem to be themselves which will make life a lot easier.
It also aids the reader to realize how extremely strict parent should loosen up with their children, not totally lose their culture but just give them enough air to breath like they would have if they were living in their own society.
Like the Telegraph said “it’s a book about defiance, determination. Intelligence and self-respect” and I advise everyone to read it.
Buy Does My Head Look Big In This? (Amazon link)
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am reading the book now and i have to say nice choose Mariam its one of the books i LOVE....:)
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mashAllah tabarkAllah very excited for this!!
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al salam 3alaikom am a 13 years old girl from egyept a muslim ofcours i liked this book very much and it helped just not to cover my hair but to cover my face i was putting hijab at age 1 year and a half and i didnt knew how did it protect me until now the first thnx 2 my parents who helped me doing this after allah ofcourse and 2 my freinds but i want to say something to pepole who think that girls who r putting hijab are useless & all of them r poor or in not good schools or they dont have blackberry i guess its not about that its about what in your heart and i say that i'm in a british school by the univeirsty of cambridge + i have a blackberry with a purple cover.......& all of my thnx go back to randa abdel-fattah thnx all for giving me this chance
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this is a graet book so far
Sally
Jul 14, 2010
ahhh im definitley reading thiss! im an egyptian muslim living in america and can definatley relate to this :( even tho i dont wear the hijabb i have a feeling this book will explain everything i go through which is more then anyone can imaginee :/