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Anvar Faris

This character and his family move to America from Pakistan when he is about 12. He struggles to invest himself in his family’s Muslim practices, and he becomes a lawyer.

Safwa/Azza/Zahra

This character is born and raised in Iraq. She sleeps with a man in order to get herself and her father to the United States. Circumstances force her to change her name several times.

Qais Badami

This character is an Iraqi man who helps a young woman and her father get to America when the young woman agrees to sleep with him.

Abu Fahd

This character is an Iraqi who has a son and a daughter. His wife dies of cancer, and his son dies of a rare blood disease. He is tortured by the Americans because they think he is a militant.

Bariah Faris

This character and her family emigrated to the U...

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