Sa’eed is seven years old. He is the youngest son to Mustafa Sa’eed and Hosna bint Mahmoud, and the younger brother to Mahmoud. He is named after his paternal grandfather. Right before his death, Mustafa Sa’eed designates the narrator as guardian of Sa’eed and his brother and asks the narrator to spare his sons the pangs of “wanderlust.” Sa’eed and his brother end up as orphans after their mother dies of suicide after killing Wad Rayyes.
Sa’eed (junior) Quotes in Season of Migration to the North
The Season of Migration to the North quotes below are all either spoken by Sa’eed (junior) or refer to Sa’eed (junior). 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 4
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“…mysterious things in my soul and in my blood impel me towards faraway parts that loom up before me and cannot be ignored. How sad it would be if either or both of my sons grew up with the germ of this infection in them, the wanderlust.”
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Sa’eed (junior) Quotes in Season of Migration to the North
The Season of Migration to the North quotes below are all either spoken by Sa’eed (junior) or refer to Sa’eed (junior). 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 4
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“…mysterious things in my soul and in my blood impel me towards faraway parts that loom up before me and cannot be ignored. How sad it would be if either or both of my sons grew up with the germ of this infection in them, the wanderlust.”
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