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Watched By Marina Budos: Summary
Watched by Marina Budhos is a book about a teenage immigrant who gets in trouble with the law for stealing two expensive shirts. He is offered a deal by the police to escape jail time: become a surveiller on his immigrant neighborhood. He accepts the deal, but discovers this job wasn’t completely what he thought it was and questions if he’s only a traitor in the end of things. The characters in this book all have something in common: they are immigrants. Naeem, the main character, is Muslim, along with the rest of his family and his friend, Ibrahim. Ibrahim is a con artist and a liar. He is the main reason for Naeem’s downfall. Naeem’s sister Taslima holds movements and events and outreaches to mosques and the immigrant children. Later on

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