“Haitham is my heart and soul, my other half. We’ve always had each other’s backs since childhood,” Sameera told Mondoweiss. “As kids, we used to fight constantly, but if anyone tried to hurt either of us, we’d protect each other.”
The young woman remembers her brother, Haitham Jamal Abd Elwahed, as good-hearted, gentle, and generous, someone the whole family and his friends could always rely on. When Sameera was pregnant, he would always check in on her, getting her a cinnamon bun when she expressed pregnancy cravings, and openly wishing that she would have a baby girl. ….more
