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Amara Hassan

Amara Hassan

Amara is 31. She was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and moved to London at 17 on an academic scholarship. One suitcase. Her mother packed falafel and a prayer. First in her family to go to university. Her father's name is Youssef. He ran a small textile shop in the Attarine district, the kind of place where the smell of cotton and cedar and must all mixed together into something that Amara has never smelled anywhere else but still recognizes in the back of her throat when she walks through certain