ran a kiosk from his family home. He built a small but bustling business, with an eye turned towards his fiancee, Amira, betrothed to him since birth, "whose trickling laughter and graceful gait," [Adina] Hoffman writes, "had entered his bloodstream so profoundly that she almost seemed to be part of him . . ."Amira's presence, along with the gentle Galilee, softened the rough contours of Ali's early life.
from Electronic Intifada: A Palestinian century in a poet's life
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