Jamilah attends madrasa where she studies Arabic and plays the darabuka drums in a student band, but she leads a double life. Since her mother died, Jamilah’s overly protective Lebanese father imposes strict curbs on her social life while her hijab-wearing older sister is totally absorbed in political causes and her brother enjoys the freedom she’s denied. read more.ġ6-year-old Australian-Muslim-Lebanese teen wonders who she really is as she straddles two cultural realities. TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT ME does raise important questions about trust and self-confidence, and it, like its predecessor, does a good job of showing that Muslim families live everywhere and share many of the same concerns as their non-Muslim counterparts. Passing as “Jamie” is fraught with difficulties: she can't invite friends to her house, lies to cover up her widower dad's strict rules and reveals her true self only to an anonymous boy she meets online (her e-mail address is “Ten_Things_I_Hate_About_Me”). "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Jamilah Towfeek hides her Lebanese-Muslim background from the other kids at her Australian school “to avoid people assuming I fly planes into buildings as a hobby.” She dyes her hair blonde, wears blue contacts and stands by when popular kids make racist remarks. The listener becomes a part of the family and roots for Jamie to discover a pride in her heritage and a belief in her own strength." (AudioFile Magazine) The personalities of Jamie's hang-loose 18-year-old brother, her tired immigrant father, who speaks in broken English, and her rhetoric-spouting revolutionary sister sound authentic. She soon settles into the material, however, and delivers an engaging, energized performance, easily handling a multitude of characters of different ethnic backgrounds, social classes, and ages. At the beginning of the book, Rebecca Macauley's characterization of teenage conversation is too loud and brash. "This coming-of-age story chronicles the world of Jamie, an Australian teenager of Lebanese Muslim descent, who struggles with peer pressure and racism at school and with her widowed father's rules at home. "A warm and loving portrait of family life.
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