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is a strange person who deals in stolen antiquities, and his lawyer helps get Sara discharged from custody after her fiancé intentionally leaves a precious artifact in her car and she is arrested. In Samah's case, he advises
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321:"Faten Hamama is like a soccer player who has been away from practice for a long time... the muscles have gone so stiff, the knees so rickety, and the chest so weak that he can no longer score goals except in his own net."
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Qura unexpectedly reappears, and messes all this perfection up. It turns out that he never died after all. Mustafa claims that Karim had killed him, or thought he had, when an
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