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The American movies that Jude has always loved haven’t quite prepared her for starting school in the US—and her new label of “Middle Eastern

this book is an equally impactful written adaptation

it offers an invitation to

Where the Jasmine Blooms | Zeina Sleiman canada 2009-2010)Yasmine enters Lebanon escaping a messy divorce and seeking the family, culture, and connection that her Palestinian mother hid during their life in Toronto. Its 2006, and shes meeting her cousin Reem for the first time after connecting over social media. Reem teaches Arabic and lives in a refugee camp with her mother and sister. Her brother Ahmed lived there too until he went to Syria for work and then disappeared. When Yasmine receives a package of