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They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl&#;s Fight for Freedom, memoir/biography by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri
Penguin Random House
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Nora Lester Murad

Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri’s book, They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl&#;s Fight for Freedom (One World, ) quotes an Israeli interrogator trying to coerce information from stoic, year-old Ahed: “Who?

Is your father behind you? Or is it your mother who’s behind you?” “Who? Who is behind you?”

In , Ahed was charged with assaulting an Israeli soldier, though family members point out that she wasn’t arrested until the video went viral, so she was most likely targeted because she humiliated the Israeli government.

Once the video of Ahed slapping and kicking a soldier went viral, two previous videos of her standing up to soldiers in her West Bank village of Nabi Saleh got new circulation, including one of year-old Ahed threatening soldiers after her big brother was arrested and one of year-