![]() Pizza is both American and Italian, / depending on which restaurant you go to.” Jude, who has always loved American movies, shares her observations-often with humor-as she soaks everything in and learns this new culture. Here, / that food is / Middle Eastern Food. Her free-verse narration cuts straight to the bone: “Back home, / food was / rice / lamb / fish / hummus / pita bread / olives / feta cheese / za’atar with olive oil. The parents are in favor of staying out of it, but with news of a new baby and nearby towns turning into battlegrounds, Jude and her mother travel to join her uncle, a medical doctor, and his family in the American Midwest. With the unfolding of the Arab Spring, her older brother, Issa, wants to join protests against the Syrian regime. ![]() ![]() Living in a tourist town on the Syrian coastline, Jude experiences the inequalities in her society firsthand. ![]() Warga portrays with extraordinary talent the transformation of a family’s life before and after the war began in Syria. ![]() A story about war and displacement, resilience and adjustment. ![]()
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