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Whats the Authors name?
Sophia Al-Maria
"We had just watched a documentary about the notorious Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi." After watching debates were formed about the documentary. Which two student dominated the class discussions while the professor looked with mild amusement?
Magda and Mohamed
"Suhail went and bought me my first phone." What was the phone that Suhail had bought for Safya? (Exact Brand and Model)
Nokia 3210
Why did she not get a response from NYU?
Her uncle Faraj did not send her application.
"Call me Abdul Hayy" Which character said this? (Full Name)
Harold Stark
"The most iconic campus of AUC. A gorgeous stone building constructed in the 1860s." Which building was being mentioned there?
"Main"
“I measured how much he cared by how many kilobytes his emails were”. Explain the conflict.
Person-person conflict between Sophia and Suhail.
"He was an amazing distraction, full of gripping anecdotes about burns, cage fighters, and rural DJs he had grown up with." Who is "He"? And where is "He" from?
His name was Si and he was from New Mexico
What was the name of the compound that Suhail and Safya would go to as their secret hideout?
The New World Compound
Sophia had an inner-conflict about her identity throughout the story. What did she do to resolve this conflict while declaring her ethnicity in official high school documents?
She checked “other” and when asked “please specify”, she would write “Klingon”. Klingon is a fictional alien race
"When I arrived at my new home, the combination gardener and bowab, bounded up the stairs to meet me." What was the name of this character who Safya was describing?
Hanafi
"We'd been caught. Faraj was early..." Where were they caught?
The Sheraton
"I did not hit him. I pushed him away from me." Explain the situation in the police station where Sophia went to register a complaint on harassment.
1. She wanted to register a complaint against the man on the bridge
2. The cops accused her for initialising the conflict
3. When the cops saw her passport, she did not have an Egyptian visa
"The last night, Kawthar agreed to recite some of her father,..., poetry from his time in prison." Who is Kawthar's father? (Full Name)
Anez Abu Salim
The girls were watching the TV show "Friends". What distracted them from watching "Friends"?
9/11
Why was Sophia placed in an college-level Arabic class? Explain the encounter with her professor?
1. Because she was a Gulf Arab.
2. Her professor accused her of being negligible for the Arab culture
3. He called her generation lazy.
4. He also says her tribe is the origin of the Arabic language
Relate the ending of the book to Season of Migration to the North.
Look at professor