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Tahir Obaid: He lived in a villa. He is comical, simple, loved poetry, and his facial expressions indicated he was from the low-class. He is not religious; as he was not raised to be one. He seemed to be from the pagan origins, or abstractly just not religious. Later on he marries
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Sadeq Safwan: He lived between all these locations. He polite and religious. He would pray, look forward to fast as soon as became 7 years old, and he did not have siblings. His life eventually changed after meeting Raafat Basha al Zain, whom he considered of significance to him. He later left his
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The coffeehouse was the group of friends’ regular, “special” spot where they spoke about life, touching upon all topics from their daily lives and routine spent with their family, such as going to the cinema and planting, to their moments at school and what each of them pursued after graduating,
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failure, to the point of refusing him to marry a nurse, who they thought was going to be of a bad reputation that he, with a "bad reputation", is married to a lady with a "good reputation". so he cut contact with them, and managed to marry her in their 20s.
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was a huge risk at that time despite that it was still done due to the fact that it revealed so much, causing attachment to the homeland. Religious differences would appear, “It is not just
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factory. He finds love, yet he encounters marriage problems later on. He eventually has two children; Ibrahim and Sabri after first being married to Ehsan.
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