After taking this class I started looking at children and young adult’s literature in a different way, especially books that talked about Muslims/ Arabs and are written by non-Arabs. I learned to look at the book in a different perspective, not only in the way the author describes the Arabs but also how they are showed in pictures.
I remember when I used to read a book and write a respond about it most of my response are positive and how much the author did a great job writing the book and showing the image of the Muslims and the Arabs but the next day when I go to class and discus how the author presented the Arabs my entire opinion will change. I remembered one of the books, I think it was The Day of Ahmad’s Secret, my respond to the book was really good and I thought the author was doing a great job by showing others who Arabs live and I liked it because it reminded me of some part of my country and my childhood but I never saw how bad the author was showing Arabs until we discuss the book in class.
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Most of the western will think that, because of what they read from books that are written by non-Arabs. This class helped me see how to look at books in different view, especially from the book that I pick for my term paper. If we did not talk about other books and how the author was presenting the Arabs I was not going to be able to see that stereotypes in the book I was going to write about especially when the books are for young