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mocracy easily mesh.
His older brother, Mohamed, a
25-year-old medical equipment
engineer, is considered the most
traditional of the trio. Always
fascinated with politics, he grew
up telling people he wanted to be
president one day. In college, he
threw himself into Brotherhoodaffiliated student groups. And
when Morsi came along, Mohamed saw a man he could relate
to. He was a leader who combined
conservative Islamic beliefs with
Egyptian politics. He represented
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a Brotherhood whose members
had been driven underground and
imprisoned under Mubarak.
Mohamed married right out of
college and now has a young son
— a child Ammar fears will never
know his father.
Mahmoud, the youngest of the
three brothers, is known as the fun,
rebellious and spontaneous brother.
“He’s more like a westerner
than an Egyptian,” Ammar says.
“Sometimes he’s much more religious, other times he’s not into it.
Just like any other kid.”
Mahmoud always told his mother he wanted to be an engineer,
but when he hit his teen years, he
A man grieves
next to dead
bodies laid at
Iman mosque,
which was
turned into
a makeshift
morgue
following the
violent dispersal
of Rabaa
Square and the
death of at least
800 civilians
at the hands of
security forces
in Cairo in
August 2013.