The Thunderbird Trilogy
Publication Date: 2016
Publisher: Tamer Institute
Country of Publication: Palestine,
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The Thunderbird trilogy is a fast-paced time-traveling fantasy adventure centered on Noor, a young orphaned Palestinian girl who must go back in time to get four magical bird feathers and save the world.
Aided by a djinn cat Noor begins her journey through different historical periods, striving to keep the wall between the world of djinns and the world of humans intact.
In the second installment, Noor finds herself in the year 1177 in Jerusalem, during the Crusades. With the help of Sabeeka, the djinn, Zainab, a girl who has the power to become invisible, and her local resistance group, Noor must find a feather belonging to the thunderbird before it burns.
Along the way, Noor helps the resistance group save hundreds of books and manuscripts from being burned. Like the first book in the Thunderbird trilogy, Book Two combines the magical with real events from Palestinian history to take the reader on a wild and adventurous ride through time.
In the third and final book of the trilogy, Noor finds herself in Byzantine Jerusalem, in the year 638 CE, where the city is under siege. She is joined once again by Sabeeka, and meets the twins Helena and Julian, who have the power of healing. The four team up to find the thunderbird.
In the process, they are swallowed by a giant worm like creature, the “bakasola”, which takes them to the world of djinns. Noor and her friends are eventually rescued, and find themselves in the colorful and peaceful world of the “sakarik”, whose life is threatened by the “bakasola”. Noor and her friends need to help the “sakarik”, before they can return to the human world in time to save it.
CTR for Middle Eastern Studies UT-Austin, United States, English, 2020
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