Amina Tamandat just today has begun first grade in al-Ksour, and has brought home her paperback textbook, Qiraati (My reading), which the school provides for each student. As she enters her house, she calls to her older brother, Abdulhamid, to come and look at her first very own book. There are lots of letters printed in black and highlighted in places with pastel colors of red, green, and blue. A few letters are printed almost an inch tall, and they are the ones used in the examples for practice. Because she has gone to the local Quranic preschool, she knows all the letters on the page and begins to pronounce all the simple words that use the key letters. She is proud that she can say most of them, and she repeats them over and over, to the considerable pleasure of her brother.