Finding Nouf 1 12
Kira Davis
Ms. Goolman
Developing Nations
10/06/2014
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris Chapter Summary 1-12
1. Nouf, the daughter of the wealthy Shrawi family, goes missing. Nayir and a search and rescue group try to find her in the desert without luck. Eventually a servant in Nouf’s household visits Nayir to tell him that travelers found Nouf’s body in a wadi. Nayir can’t shake the feeling that this is not the whole story.
2. Nayir goes to the coroner’s office to pick up Nouf’s body to bring to her family for burial. The medical examiner explains that Nouf drowned, but Nayir and a female lab technician (Katya Hijazi), think Nouf may have been murdered based on the wounds on her body and the improbability of drowning with a camel. Nayir is very uncomfortable with a powerful female who seems to defy traditional standards of decency and respect. Nayir faints when he goes to see Nouf’s naked body, and Katya discusses performing an ultrasound.
3. After picking up Nouf’s body from the examiner, Nayir was on his way to her family’s island for the funeral. Dropping of the body on the west side entrance, Nayir continued to the house. Othman’s mother Nusra greeted Nayir at the door and set him in the living room greet the rest of the family. The funeral happens outside, Nouf was wrapped and facing Mecca which meant she was pregnant.
4. The Shrawis accepted nearly a fourth of the zakat generated in Jeddah, making them very wealthy. They were raised not to value material things. Othman was adopted, Tahsin was the eldest and surprisingly humble. Tahsin tells Nayir how Nouf wasn’t close to her brothers and he explains the events that led up to Nouf’s disappearance. Nayir struggles with social mores.
5. Nayir and Othman speak privately, and Othman appears sad and confused about Nouf’s death. Othman says that the camel that accompanied Nouf to the desert spooks easily now, and Nayir tells Othman that Nouf had defensive wounds on her body, and Othman reveals that Tahsin paid for the
Ms. Goolman
Developing Nations
10/06/2014
Finding Nouf by Zoë Ferraris Chapter Summary 1-12
1. Nouf, the daughter of the wealthy Shrawi family, goes missing. Nayir and a search and rescue group try to find her in the desert without luck. Eventually a servant in Nouf’s household visits Nayir to tell him that travelers found Nouf’s body in a wadi. Nayir can’t shake the feeling that this is not the whole story.
2. Nayir goes to the coroner’s office to pick up Nouf’s body to bring to her family for burial. The medical examiner explains that Nouf drowned, but Nayir and a female lab technician (Katya Hijazi), think Nouf may have been murdered based on the wounds on her body and the improbability of drowning with a camel. Nayir is very uncomfortable with a powerful female who seems to defy traditional standards of decency and respect. Nayir faints when he goes to see Nouf’s naked body, and Katya discusses performing an ultrasound.
3. After picking up Nouf’s body from the examiner, Nayir was on his way to her family’s island for the funeral. Dropping of the body on the west side entrance, Nayir continued to the house. Othman’s mother Nusra greeted Nayir at the door and set him in the living room greet the rest of the family. The funeral happens outside, Nouf was wrapped and facing Mecca which meant she was pregnant.
4. The Shrawis accepted nearly a fourth of the zakat generated in Jeddah, making them very wealthy. They were raised not to value material things. Othman was adopted, Tahsin was the eldest and surprisingly humble. Tahsin tells Nayir how Nouf wasn’t close to her brothers and he explains the events that led up to Nouf’s disappearance. Nayir struggles with social mores.
5. Nayir and Othman speak privately, and Othman appears sad and confused about Nouf’s death. Othman says that the camel that accompanied Nouf to the desert spooks easily now, and Nayir tells Othman that Nouf had defensive wounds on her body, and Othman reveals that Tahsin paid for the