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In My Heart is a Hebrew Female, a novel by the writer Khawla Hamdi, in which the writer tells how she met the heroine of the story, Nada, who was telling her story on one of the websites and was able to contact her to find out more details. The society of the so-called Arab Jews and the resistance in Lebanon.

And the story of the novel, according to the writer, impartially conveys a true story of real heroes (Rima the Muslim and Jacob the Jew who adopted her after the death of her mother, his wife Tania, and their two sons Sarah and Pascal, as well as Nada Al-Judea and her Christian brother and the rest of her family, Ahmad the Lebanese resistance Muslim and his sister Samah, and his close friend Hassan, who betrothed Nada After the disappearance of Ahmed, Sonya and her daughter Dana, Rachel and her immoral husband, and many others), the writer soon abandoned her impartiality, and began presenting evidence to convince the reader of her religion, even if they were stories of the conversion of people at the hands of the heroes of her novel.

The Jews of the island of Djerba

The events of the novel began on the island of Djerba, one of the Tunisian islands to which some Jews from the East immigrated after Nebuchadnezzar - the king of Babylon and the commander of its armies - burned their temple, captivated their women and children, plundered their money, expelled them from Jerusalem and ended their kingdom there 2,500 years ago. They settled in the charming island of Djerba after a while, and they established their most famous synagogue, the El Ghriba Synagogue, which is the oldest synagogue in Africa. They also established many temples and shrines adjacent to mosques. The current number of Jews on the island of Djerba does not exceed two thousand, knowing that they are descendants of the first immigrants and have mixed with the people of the land, and nothing distinguishes them from the inhabitants of the country except that they remain on the religion of their fathers. Moreover, the survival of these indicates that Islam is not a bloody religion, otherwise this group of Jews would have been exterminated or perished. expelled from the country.

Novel summary

The events of the novel revolve around a true story of a Jewish girl named Nada who lives in Tunisia with her Jewish family. Rima is a child, not more than 15 years old, after her mother's death. She was taken to be raised by a Jewish man, but he left her after she became a danger to his daughter, who is imitating her in wearing the Islamic headscarf. He worked to deport her from Tunisia to Lebanon with his sister's friend Umm Nada - so she made her a maid in her house. The events of the novel accelerate, and one evening a masked young man knocks on the door for Nada to seek help in order to treat his friend Ahmed, who was injured as a result of the clashes between the resistance and the Israeli occupation. Ahmed belonged to the Lebanese resistance against the Zionist occupation. And he loved Ahmed Nada after he resorted to her and helped him and gave him a helping hand, ignoring religious and sectarian differences.

The novel presents the relationship of Muslims with others, especially the Jews, as well as some differences between the Muslim woman and her position in the Qur’an and the Jewish woman. In addition, it reflects what Nada was subjected to persecution and exile by her family after she announced her conversion to Islam. As for Rima's fate, she died in the Qana war when missiles were thrown at the popular markets where she was shopping. The novel also shows terrorism, barbarism, and obliteration of the female person, as it is a nakedness in the Jewish religion. . The novel seems to present the writer's wishes and does not describe a lived reality, because the Jewish community in the Arab world is almost closed in on itself.

religion comparison

The writer tries to compare religions in a stark victory for Islam, although in some passages she deliberately makes the comparison seem objective, as she said in prayer on the tongue of Nada: (Muslim prayer is different from the Christian prayer, which is performed loudly and in a lyrical way, but it is close to the prayer of the Jews. From the Holy Bible in a faint voice, or within it without aloud it) and her bias was manifested in eliminating non-Muslims narratively in an incident that claimed several heroes, at a time when she forcibly deported those who survived to Islam.

Novel characters

A novel in my heart, a Hebrew female, included a group of characters, which is divided into two parts: primary and secondary, and each of the characters is considered: Ahmed. Nada and Rima are the heroes of this novel

Considering Ahmed: a young man who joined the armed resistance in Lebanon and a university student at the same time... Rima: an orphan girl who lived among a Jewish family and has preserved her Islam and her faith for a number of reasons, including her mother's will to Jacob before her death... Nada: who always differed in her opinion from Her family's opinions, and specifically her mother's, especially regarding the issue of considering Islam a religion of terrorism and extremism. She was distinguished by her constant defense of the resistance youth and her admiration for their courage and concern for their homeland.

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