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A Witness To Paranoia

"Isn't that what you like? Isn't that what all your girlfriends are wearing?"

Sep 30, 2019
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By Zainab Omaki

My father was a career diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For four year periods he was posted to different countries. In the beginning, we followed him; my mother, two older brothers, my older sister, and myself, traipsing to places which I mostly remember from photographs and stories about th…

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