Summary

Waguih first meets Zara Davies at Amherst where they are both students. Everyone in the class is white except him and Zara. He wants to play the world-weary vet in contrast to his naïve idealistic fellow students. What he has over these kids is his realization that humans can treat each other horribly. Zara makes the decision to convert to Islam. Thoughts of the Iraq war had been bothering her. She asks him how he could kill his own people. He tells her that he’s Egyptian and a member of the Coptic Orthodox Church. He kiddingly says he could kill all the Muslims he wants. She reports him to school for making a threat to her. He is not punished and promise to watch his words in the future.

Waguih seeks Zara out. As part of PsyOps, Waguih’s task was...