9 “This is Ghanim, the son of my daughter Aousha,” she began, her voice steady yet troubled. “You know Aousha married Naser al-Marri from Deira and had this boy. However, she couldn’t settle there and was divorced. She later married Saif ibn Thalith, who took her to his home, but Ghanim stayed with me, and I have been raising him. Three days ago, his father came wanting to take the boy back. I refused, but yesterday he returned with a man armed with a tofek (a distorted pronunciation of the Farsi word ,تفنـگ pronounced “tof-eng” meaning, rifle. Another common term for “rifle” is ,بندقيـة which is also taken from the Farsi word
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