By the end of 1979, we left Sana’a for Kuwait and lived there for two years, during which time my sister Salma was born. My father joined the Institute for Arab Planning, where several Egyptian leftist exiles worked.
Uncomfortable with racism and life in Kuwait, he decided to cut short his contract, resigned, and went back to Egypt in the fall of 1981. M…
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