A Palestine Women

A Palestine Woman

In the introduction Naomi talks about how the media has played a huge part in trying to destroy her homeland of Palestine. Though she started to feel “rooted and connected, but there were those deeply sorrowful headlines in the background to carry around like sad weights.” How can someone move on, when every time they turn on the television or read the newspapers, and all they see or hear is something horrible being said about their homeland? For someone like Naomi, she takes into count the positives that she has learned from her family and certain Arab friends that she has met. She also discusses the role media has played on the 9/11 attacks on the United States. What happened on 9/11 did not just affect the American people; it affected everyone around the world. Naomi says “September 11, 2001 was not the first hideous day ever in the world, but it was the worst one many Americans had ever lived.” I feel that by Naomi stating this she is saying that though it hurt and destroyed many Americans it also “cast a huge shadow over the lives of so many innocent people.” The media began to scrutinize the innocent people (Arabs) that had no part in the doings of these horrific tragedies. For Naomi she would found ways to express herself and her pride for her homeland; she wants Americans to understand that what the media is portraying is not necessarily directed toward every Arab or Palestinian. The media should focus on the people who did these crimes and instead of the people who are innocent bystanders. I feel that through reading Naomi’s poems, you start to get that feel and better understanding of the Arabs and the Palestinians nations. It is clear that Naomi felt the need to paint a picture of her homeland and the good people in that land. I feel that I can get a better understand of the Middle East through her poems.