As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow middle grade by the Azhari scholar Sheikh

by the Azhari scholar Sheikh ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Jaziri (1882-1941)

If you've ever wondered how a religion that preaches freedom and love can produce judgmental and unkind followers

alliteratively speaking

and the ambiguity of right and wrong when survival is at stake

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone took lessons from Hatem the Deaf

As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow middle grade by the Azhari scholar SheikhSalama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had her parents and her big brother; she still had her home. She had a normal teenagers life. Now Salama volunteers at a hospital in Homs, helping the wounded who flood through the doors daily. Secretly, though, she is desperate to find a way out of her beloved country before her sister in law, Layla, gives birth. So desperate, that she has manifested a