In Praise of Hatred

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Wasal’s lovers in Mosul, Iraq: Khalil, the grandfather’s driver; Mister John, an English expat; in London, a Pakistani cab driver; Abdel Ghany Bilany, a Syrian trader; a Spanish sailor

The narrator’s fellow students at secondary school:

Hala

Nada, who has a lover, Abu Ramy, in the death squad

Ghada, who has a middle-aged lover, an officer in the Mukhabarat

Layla

Hana, a member of the same religious circle

Hiba

Rima, Omar’s wife

Abdullah, a Yemeni man, Bakr’s friend and associate, later to marry Safaa as his second wife

Zeina, Abdullah’s first wife

Prince Shebab El Din, a Saudi prince, schoolfriend of Abdullah, and later a close associate of Abdullah and Bakr

Alya, a member of the religious organization and mentor of the narrator

Nadhir Mansoury, a death squad officer who later marries Marwa

Jalal, Selim’s son

Philip Anderson, a CIA operative

Saleh, a former Communist protégé of Abdullah

Um Jalal, Selim’s wife

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