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"Badri did not become an officer, he never did learn to read and write, he did not pull down the bronze statue of Muhammad Ali, and yet I felt a little jealous of him because together with Amm Ahmad's bawwaba, he had inherited Alexandria–his Alexandria and my Alexandria."
The 8th story, Amm Ahmad, Father and Son.