The effect of the author's choice to use the third-person limited point of view in the story "Hamadi" by Naomi Shihab Nye is that It restricts what the reader knows about the inner thoughts and feelings of other characters.
Explanation:
The third-person limited point of view does not give the reader the complete information about what the characters feel or think as other narrative styles do, the objective of this is to keep the control of what the reader knows about the characters and to see everything from the view of just one person as if we were on their place.