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Firas is the son of Dahab and Mustafa, the brother of Aya, and the cousin of Nuri, Afra, and Sami. In Syria, he is a typical teenage boy, preoccupied with computer games and his phone to his father’s irritation. Firas goes missing before he and his father are to leave for England. He later washes up in the river, having been shot in the head. His death fills Mustafa with guilt and regret.
Firas Quotes in The Beekeeper of Aleppo
The The Beekeeper of Aleppo quotes below are all either spoken by Firas or refer to Firas. 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 1 Quotes
And for a while on those evenings […] we were still happy. Life was close enough to normal for us to forget our doubts, or at least to keep them locked away somewhere in the dark recesses of our minds while we made plans for the future.
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This passage is taken from the end of Nuri’s recollections of his life before the Syrian Civil War escalated. Here, he describes the evenings on which he, Afra, and Sami would have dinner with Mustafa, Dahab, Aya, and Firas. Although Nuri portrays these dinners as his last purely happy memories of Aleppo, he also remembers how Mustafa seemed to sense that tragedy was imminent, becoming melancholic after their meal and worrying about the growing civil unrest. In this way, the knowledge of what was coming taints these memories, diminishing the joy of remembrance because they include so many things that Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Mo
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Firas Character Timeline in The Beekeeper of Aleppo
The timeline below shows where the character Firas appears in The Beekeeper of Aleppo. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
Mustafa has two children, Firas and Aya. He is often frustrated with Firas for preferring computer games and his phone...
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...worsens, Mustafa sends Dahab and Aya away to England to keep them safe. He and Firas stay behind in Syria. Mustafa insists that they cannot abandon the bees, who are like...
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After the bees die, Mustafa is ready to leave Aleppo, but Firas goes missing. The family waits for him, Mustafa fretting ceaselessly and filling his hours by...
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Chapter 7
...reports that he has made it to England, but that Dahab is deeply depressed about Firas’s death. Mustafa tells Nuri the journey to the UK has gotten even more difficult but...
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