Amin Jafaari Analysis

Leila Ahmed and Amin Jafaari (fictional character) have something in common. They both have had struggle in their lives because of the political changes of their countries. They have both experienced the effects of a revolution. In Ahmed’s case it was while she was a child, in Jafaari’s, before he was born. One main difference between their experiences was time. Ahmed suffered the results of a revolution she lived through, the direct politics, the bombings, the oppression of those who spoke out against the ones who were supposedly freeing them. For Jafaari, he was suffering the after effects of a revolution, more specifically a war, that he seemed to have no part in. Opinions aren’t born in a vacuum. With every opinion or idea we have comes a set of strings attached to external forces. Strings that lead to parents, to friends, to devices and politicians and media. All of who we are and what we believe doesn’t just come from within us, it comes from how we understand and interact with the world, and how our surroundings shape us as people. For Amin Jafaari, the world at surface level seemed very stable. He receives a medical award from an Israeli medical association. He seems to feel …show more content…
Growing up with these two cultures, at the beginning, she didn’t even think about British and Egyptian as totally separate cultures, because she’d grown up only knowing both of them. Ahmed started to question what her cultural identity was more and more after the British occupation left. Egypt gained independence from Britain when Leila was 12. After the revolution Britain had some say in Egyptian affairs, but they no longer controlled the country. Ahmed noticed changes, majorly with the people in Egypt. Before the revolution, Her school was full of British teachers, none of whom returned after Egypt gained independence. Even friends of hers who weren’t British