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The owner of the local coffee shop in Bataween is, according to Hadi, the junk dealer’s only friend. He lets Hadi tell vivid stories in his coffee shop but also looks out for his friend when suspicious members of Iraqi security try to interrogate him about the Whatsitsname. In this sense, Aziz helps Hadi come to terms with the fact that storytelling can be dangerous in such unstable political circumstances, in which having too much information about criminal activities can mark one as a suspect. Aware that the journalist Mahmoud is indirectly responsible for Hadi’s savage beating at the hands of police officers, Aziz also protects Hadi by telling Mahmoud that Hadi’s story about the Whatsitsname is entirely fabricated. This keeps Mahmoud from further interrogating Hadi and, thus, putting him in danger. At the end of the novel, Aziz is convinced that Hadi’s arrest is unfair and that his friend is not actually the Whatsitsname. However, his participation in public celebrations of Hadi’s arrest reveals his own despair at seeing violence escalate so severely in Baghdad—and his desire, along with the rest of the population, for so much brutality to come to an end.
Aziz the Egyptian Quotes in Frankenstein in Baghdad
The Frankenstein in Baghdad quotes below are all either spoken by Aziz the Egyptian or refer to Aziz the Egyptian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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“I wanted to hand him over to the forensics department, because it was a complete corpse that had been left in the streets like trash. It’s a human being, guys, a person,” he told them.
“But it wasn’t a complete corpse. You made it complete,” someone objected.
“I made it complete so it wouldn’t be treated as trash, so it would be respected like other dead people and given a proper burial,” Hadi explained.
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Chapter 5
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Sitting in the coffee shop, he would tell the story from the beginning, never tiring of repeating himself. He immersed himself in the story and went with the flow, maybe in order to give pleasure to others or maybe to convince himself that it was just a story from his fertile imagination and that it had never really happened.
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Aziz the Egyptian Quotes in Frankenstein in Baghdad
The Frankenstein in Baghdad quotes below are all either spoken by Aziz the Egyptian or refer to Aziz the Egyptian. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
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“I wanted to hand him over to the forensics department, because it was a complete corpse that had been left in the streets like trash. It’s a human being, guys, a person,” he told them.
“But it wasn’t a complete corpse. You made it complete,” someone objected.
“I made it complete so it wouldn’t be treated as trash, so it would be respected like other dead people and given a proper burial,” Hadi explained.
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Chapter 5
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Sitting in the coffee shop, he would tell the story from the beginning, never tiring of repeating himself. He immersed himself in the story and went with the flow, maybe in order to give pleasure to others or maybe to convince himself that it was just a story from his fertile imagination and that it had never really happened.
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