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Stories by: booohh
6 stories
Embracing Empowerment.
Let's be real.Even in 2018, it's really hard to be a woman. It's tiring, confusing, incredibly frustrating and even scary at times. Throughout History, many powerful women have stood up in the face of injustice to fight for coming generations and yet, women are still degraded and reduced every single day, and this is particularly so for women of colour. Are you a woman who is just fed up? Never feel like you're enough? Always being questioned and interrogated? Always having to defend yourself? Well not anymore.Read this book and you will find yourself closer to embracing your own strength and empowerment.~~~This blog delves deep into the underlining issues that many women face and it explores why women still have to struggle daily against sexism, patriarchy, rape culture and much more. If you are a woman, I guarantee you will relate to many of the pertinent themes in the chapters. I'd like to share as much of my own experiences and knowledge and aim to open up the mentalities of both women and men to eliminate issues that hinder our lives every single day.
3arab Down Under.
Do you drink your tea to the sound of animated yelling, exaggerated stories, simmering political debates, and your three hundred relatives running around? Are you interested in controversial topics surrounding the interaction between the West and Islam? Do you like debates? Do you like putting your opinion out there?Well then this book is for you.Follow me as I introduce you to the riveting world of an Arab girl living in Australia with all the issues of conformity, stereotypes and Islamophobia that are strung along.All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2014
An Echoing Race.
The last two years of Sameena Ahmad's life have been interesting, to say the least.Why?Maybe it was because she was the Prime Minister's daughter.Or maybe it's because that's when the suitors started knocking on her door. One after another, Sameena either declined or accepted the requests. The men who actually made it to her living room were considered lucky. Two years later, and after a particularly bad experience, Sameena is more picky and cautious than ever. Past experiences with men have her reconsidering what they're really on the hunt for. Her love? Or something else...Things only take a turn for the worst, when tension arises throughout the country and a revolution seems imminent. Sameena will stand by her father and family but the biggest question is...who can she really trust?
Palestwinians.
Zach and Yasmine are two teenagers just trying to get through life by keeping their head held high and never letting their hopes drop. Although this can be hard when you're living in an illegally occupied country such as Palestine, they're there for each other. ALL the time. Yasmine is sarcastic, witty and a little controlling. Zach is quiet, annoying and indecisive. All the perfect ingredients to get on each others nerves! However they're basically twins...born apart but meant for each other from the beginning. They're Palestwinians. Join them on this journey as they challenge and learn from each other, battle the hardships of life and dream of their future....possibly a future together? Will they live up to the 'girls and guys can't be friends' motto? Can they survive, where only danger surrounds them? Who knows? Read to find out!All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2014
Vein of Life.
Whilst most kids would be playing ball, begging for ice-cream or prancing around in the sun, she would observe curiously, reserved and knowing. Even as a child, she pitied the folly and antics of those around her.She laughed at the delusion of others.She scowled at idiocy.She was insipid to those who chose to remain ignorant.After all...she knew and they didn't.~~~~~Growing up, Amira knew life would never be a walk in the park. Life experiences had shoved that notion down her throat, oh-so-nicely. As a teenager living on the central coast, she never really belonged. Not that she wanted to. The people she was surrounded with comprised of airheads who only knew the meaning of parties, sex and alcohol. Yet, despite her tireless efforts of constantly pushing those who she deemed unworthy away from her, she couldn't help but feel the growing black abyss in her soul.So Amira asks...Really, what's the point of it?Of life, she means?All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2014