![]() ![]() ![]() My family are Sunni Muslims from the al-Shammari tribe that used to rule the Ha’il region until the Saud tribe took over. The boys wore jeans and T-shirts girls like me wore a jalabiya, which is a long, shapeless dress that covers your whole body. Good girls learn to take care of a house for a husband they wear hijabs to show that they are good. But she would only say, “If you’re a girl, you behave like a girl. I asked her why older girls and women wore hijabs. When I was seven, I asked my mother why I couldn’t play outside. Now she has written a book Rebel, which explains why she was so desperate to escape, and what it was like growing up as a woman in Saudi Arabia. Happily for Mohammed (she dropped her family name of al-Qunun), Canada soon offered her asylum. Her face was beamed around the world her story covered by television networks and newspapers, who framed her plight as the ultimate escape from Saudi Arabia’s repressive regime. Within hours, the hashtag #SaveRahaf was trending, and by the end of the day her Twitter following had jumped from 24 followers to 27,000. I’m now in real danger because the Saudi embassy is trying to force me to return,” she posted in Arabic. ![]() Fast running out of options, she picked up her phone and started tweeting. However, at Bangkok airport she was detained by officials. It was January 2019 and the Saudi teenager had been on holiday with her family in Kuwait when she slipped away, intent on flying to Australia and claiming asylum. ![]() Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun was just 18 when she captured the world’s attention. ![]()
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![]() That’s how us pooches usually do it, but, just for you, we’ll do it the Peoplish way. ![]() Well, there’s only one way to fix that… a proper introduction.ĭon’t worry, I’m not about to sniff your butt, my person-pal. Buy DOG DIARIES CURSE OF THE MYSTERY MUTT- STEVEN BUTL at affordable prices from the online Bookshop Educate YourSelf Limited. If you’ve read any of my books before… HI! IT’S GREAT TO SMELL YOU AGAIN… but if this is the first time you’ve ever opened one of my LICK-A-LICIOUS diaries, you’ll have no idea who I am, and that’s a TERRIBLE way to start a good story. STOP EVERYTHING!! What am I doing? In all my shock and panic, I completely forgot to introduce myself. It’s awful! A disaster of pooch-apocalypse proportions! It’s… You won’t believe what’s been happening, my furless friend. Well, I haven’t told you all the details yet. ![]() You’re reading this, scratching your human head and wondering what on earth I’m talking about, right? ![]() Wait a second… you’re supposed to be more shocked than that, my person-pal. ![]() ![]() I was really kind of hoping that The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros was going to be one of our reads for this year, but I wasn’t tremendously hopeful. ![]() (It’s not that I didn’t begin months ago, it’s just that what with the state of the world, country, and my resultant personal life, I’ve preferred to dissolve into a blob of Schitt’$ Creek– or Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives-watching goo rather than use my taxed brain or emotions on anything more substantial during nearly every moment of “free time.”) I will not be emerging from this pile of books for some time, so strap on your seatbelts and get ready for a bombardment of high-school-reading reviews. At least if I could read a book a day this week I might figure out what I have to … And then I could come up with a choose-your-own list over the next few months. Class begins in a week and a half and I want to check on, oh, about thirty books. ![]() I have disappeared under a tower of books that I am still considering for my English 1 class, at this, the eleventh hour. ![]() ![]() Bobby Martin had already stuffed his pockets full of stones, and the other boys soon followed his example, selecting the smoothest and roundest stones Bobby and Harry Jones and Dickie Delacroix-the villagers pronounced this name “Dellacroy”-eventually made a great pile of stones in one corner of the square and guarded it against the raids of the other boys. ![]() School was recently over for the summer, and the feeling of liberty sat uneasily on most of them they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play, and their talk was still of the classroom and the teacher, of books and reprimands. ![]() The people of the village began to gather in the square, between the post office and the bank, around ten o’clock in some towns there were so many people that the lottery took two days and had to be started on June 26th, but in this village, where there were only about three hundred people, the whole lottery took only about two hours, so it could begin at ten o’clock in the morning and still be through in time to allow the villagers to get home for noon dinner. ![]() The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green. ![]() |