A Forbidden Love.

Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues

...Well, Nayla and Sami are terribly in Love. They met in 2004 in Baghdad. She is a sunni, he a shia. That was never an issue for either nor for their respective families. They are both young adults and knew that this is "It". The search is over. They got engaged and were eagerly looking forward to their wedding, their final union. Sami needed a little more time. He needed to sort himself out financially so he can start a family and Nayla was willing to wait a little longer. The important thing is that they are together, so they thought. In early 2006, Nayla's family received several death threats and were forced to leave Baghdad. Her father an ex-government employee understood that he was targeted.He decided he was not willing to turn his wife into a widow. They packed some of their belongings, took the little savings he had put aside for his daughter's wedding and escaped to Amman. Nayla was devastated being far from Sami, so was he. But he promised he would join her later on that year. Nothing was going to stand in their way, so they believed...

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