Love from Mecca to Medina

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Her debut novel Saints and Misfits was the winner of the 2018 APALA Honor award, the 2017 Middle East Book Honor Award, and a 2018 William C. And Adam's enthusiasm was actually contagious because I started yearning to go that special place again😭 I could literally feel him as I have been through this. throughout the whole book because why am i reading my own experience when i was performing umrah back in 2019. Although I understand this social interaction is a normal reality for many Muslims and I wasn’t too bothered by it as an adult reader who knows her own beliefs and limits, when I consider it from the perspective of a book targeted at potentially impressionable young Muslim women, it does raise some alarm bells for me.

I have found myself a little weary of Young Adult fiction in recent months – to be fair, I’m hardly in the YA age bracket!I just don’t have enough of a break from school to spend all the time I want to with you in Doha, Hanna,” Zayneb said. It drove him bonkers that Hanna hadn’t realized they didn’t need her “chaperoning” them, or finding out—and being in charge of—all their plans, or just being an oblivious third wheel. The immense stress Zayneb is in which she doesn’t even know how to articulate for fear of breaking down.

Zayneb is in Chicago, where school and extracurricular stresses are piling on top of a terrible frenemy situation, making her miserable. Perhaps gazing at the souvenir Kaaba could ignite the feeling of being in Mecca with her dad this past summer. it was perfection, romance at its best, halal goodness with a sprinkle of condemning inequality, racism islamophobia and pointing the finger at institutions.And one seemingly generous gesture from Adam causes her to explode in anger, Adam not knowing why his gift evoked such feelings… girl please this is childish, use your words to express what you feel in a polite manner. The journey in Mecca and Medina were captured perfectly, I could almost feel the breeze on my face and sniff Masjidil Haram's heavenly scent on my nose.

Adam's worries regarding his career made sense but yes no matter how much you try, these highs and lows always hit you.Most obviously, perhaps, this book portrays a loving, passionate, sometimes cheesy, sometimes happily-ever-aftery halal romantic relationship and, perhaps more than ever, this is very important for young Muslims dealing with the wilderness of modern Western romantic relationships that otherwise bombards them. And if you isolate it from other parts of your life, you will start thinking of things such as a story like this to be sacrilegious. I appreciated that eventually they both took the time to reflect on their own mistakes and be vulnerable and humble in the face of those realisations. There was also a lot of pettiness and and insecurities that I feel were conflict-driven more than character-driven--issues that were put there for the sake of the conflict, not something that made complete sense to the characters. On Thanksgiving, Adam and Zayneb decided to spend their vacations in London but something comes up and they were presented with the opportunity to spend the vacation on Umrah Adam decided to avail this opportunity while he was in good health (He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis).