BOOK ONE
THUNDERBIRD BY SONIA NIMR TRANSLATED BY M. LYNX QUALEY CMES Emerging Voices from the Middle East University of Texas Press | April 2022 | 9781477325810 | 128pp | £13.99 | PB
The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced �me-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Pales�nian girl who starts in the present and must travel back in �me and find four magical bird feathers to save the world. Aided by a djinn cat, Noor begins her journey through different historical periods, striving to keep the wall between worlds intact. Sonia Nimr is a Pales�nian writer, storyteller, translator, ethnographer and academic. She writes for children and youth in Arabic and English and relates folktales in colloquial Arabic. She is the winner of the 2014 E�salat Award for Children’s Literature for Best Young Adult Book for her book Extraordinary Journeys to Unknown Places. M. Lynx Qualey holds an MFA in crea�ve wri�ng from the University of Minnesota and, in addi�on to guiding Arab Lit, covers Arabic literature for The Guardian. Her wri�ng also appears in Al Jazeera, The New Republic, Your Middle East, and AGNI, Boston University’s online journal.
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