Asmaa Hussein A Temporary Gift: Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing poetry “If they are not the

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Imam Bukhari

Asmaa Hussein A Temporary Gift: Reflections on Love, Loss and Healing poetry “If they are not theOn Friday, August 16, 2013, twenty six year old Amr Kassem attended a peaceful protest in Alexandria, Egypt along with thousands of others, rallying against the mass injustices taking place in the aftermath of the coup detat by the Egyptian military under the command of Abdel Fattah El Sisi. As Kassem returned home to his family, an Egyptian army sniper shot and killed him, leaving a woman widowed and a child fatherless. A Temporary Gift is a record