This book shows the Middle East through a Western prism. In terms of the story, I was never bored reading this book.īut there are some things that are troubling. It is clearly deeply in love with its aesthetic, and its aesthetic is mesmerisingly beautiful. The graphic novel is perhaps the most beautifully illustrated thing I've ever read / beheld. But their life in the desert is not meant to last forever.
She tells the growing boy stories from the Qu'ran and other myths / fairy tales. She escapes with the child, and forms a small family unit in the desert, never quite sure whether she acts as a mother or a sister to the growing boy. Our heroine is sold into marriage, then abducted by slavers, put in a slave market, where she adopts a black toddler. Set in a fictitious Arab sultanate, this is the story of a young girl/woman and the toddler/boy/teenager/man she adopts. Habibi is a beautiful, beautiful work of art.
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