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Bayoumi is the owner of a coffee shop, who gives Firdaus shelter after she runs away from Sheikh Mahmoud. For the first several months, Bayoumi is kind and generous to Firdaus and never tries to take advantage of her. However, when Firdaus decides she will move out and become independent, Bayoumi beats and rapes her, and starts locking her in his house all day and prostituting her out to his friends at night.
Bayoumi Quotes in Woman at Point Zero
The Woman at Point Zero quotes below are all either spoken by Bayoumi or refer to Bayoumi. 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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All I can remember are two rings of intense white surrounded by two circles of intense black. I only had to look into them for the white to become whiter and the black even blacker, as though sunlight was pouring into them from some magical source neither on earth, nor in the sky.
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It was though I was seeing the eyes that now confronted me for the first time. Two jet black surfaces that stared into my eyes, travelled with an infinitely slow movement over my face, and my neck, and then dropped downwards gradually over my breast, and my belly, to settle somewhere just below it, between my thighs.
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Bayoumi Quotes in Woman at Point Zero
The Woman at Point Zero quotes below are all either spoken by Bayoumi or refer to Bayoumi. 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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All I can remember are two rings of intense white surrounded by two circles of intense black. I only had to look into them for the white to become whiter and the black even blacker, as though sunlight was pouring into them from some magical source neither on earth, nor in the sky.
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It was though I was seeing the eyes that now confronted me for the first time. Two jet black surfaces that stared into my eyes, travelled with an infinitely slow movement over my face, and my neck, and then dropped downwards gradually over my breast, and my belly, to settle somewhere just below it, between my thighs.
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