Word: ahmad
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...This is much worse than 1996," says Doctor Ahmad Mrowe, the director of the hospital. "Back then we were receiving old people and resistance fighters. This time it's almost all women and children. We haven't seen one resistance man," he adds, referring to Hizballah guerrillas. He said that the hospital has received 196 casualties, including 25 dead. "We don't need democracy," he says. "We just want to live." The basement of the hospital is packed with casualties and their anxious relatives who have fled their homes from neighboring villages to sleep on thin mattresses in the corridors...
...While I was in Bir al-Abed, the Israelis dropped a couple of small bombs about 500 yards away, on the next block. They sent gray plumes into the air and filled my nose with the smell of cordite and dust. The cab driver who drove us there, Ahmad Hammoud, 40, didn't even flinch. He's from the neighborhood and was more concerned with the fate of his family. "I got my family out on the first day of the strikes," he said. But he stayed. "I thought it was wrong to leave because if we all left...
...People in Kabul were shaken by the string of explosions, and the streets were visibly quiet as groups of police and Afghan soldiers searched vehicles at major intersections. "Everybody is scared," said first lieutenant Ahmad Shah, a traffic policeman in Khair Khana who witnessed one of the bombs. "There is fear in the city today and you do not see many cars. It is because of these explosions, which show the weakness of the government...
Throughout the novel, the protagonist Ahmad frequently admonishes his fellow human beings for “taking away” his faith. Updike explained that such a concept is “the assertion that all the world’s religions contradict much of what we see in the real world. People—even believers—don’t act as though they believe so much of the time...
...Perhaps it’s unrealistic for [Ahmad] to expect the world to reinforce his beliefs, but he does rather look to that,” Updike said...