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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Ahmad and Hasan were two of the brightest students at Aden College in Yemen; they were also best friends. After graduation, they traveled together to Britain, where Ahmad studied medicine in Edinburgh and Hasan studied law in London. Their friendship remained strong while in Britain, as did their competitive natures.
However, politics and ambition changed all that! Hasan re Ahmad and Hasan were two of the brightest students at Aden College in Yemen; they were also best friends. Hasan returns to Aden, where he gets married to none other than Ahmad's sister, Salma, who adores him. Hasan's career is just as successful as his personal life, and he becomes a high-ranking, well-respected minister of justice.
Meanwhile, Ahmad develops a good reputation as a physician, but diagnoses murder by the communist government, and has to flee. Fate brings the best friends back together in Sanaa, the capital of North Yemen. This time, the circumstances are dire.
Once again Ahmad's forensic training incriminates one of the president's in-laws, accused of murdering a burglar. But Hasan chooses to protect the sheikh, and put his brother-in-law, in jail.
Help comes from a teenaged prostitute. Paperback , 1 , pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Two Boys from Aden College , please sign up. It will resonate with many who migrated to find work or who received life-changing higher education abroad and could not return or returned but could not adapt. Hassan on the surface follows his faith religiously but hypocritically enjoys extra marital sex. His character is already in training for his future successful life based on greed and corruption.
The story and dialogue are very well written, with detailed descriptions and straightforward expressions. Qais took me some fifty years back to the good old days of Aden College and then Liverpool School of Medicine. He reminded me so much of my early days in the University students hostel, as if he was living in the room next door. Qais Ghanem; because everyone who excels has his own special personality which leaves its finger prints on his creations, however much he tries to avoid that.
For in the end he is only human. That is why I enjoyed reading his book, and learning so much about his personality, his intelligence, his aspirations, his achievements, as well as his failures. However I will tell him about these, if and when I meet him in person.
Two Boys from Aden College. Qais Ghanem was born in Aden, at the time a British colony, now part of Yemen.