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This is Adel Ben Harhara who wrote this incredible book "To Have Nothing" where he talks about his exploits growing up in Addis Ababa (and later migrating to Yemen) as a Hadrami-Ethiopian whose father (a wealthy Hadrami and one of my grandfather's group of friends) died and left him living on the streets fending for his life.

Adel, who lives in Canada now, contacted me about this while I was in Seattle during the Covid period while he was writing the book, and I was shocked by his crazy tale and the astounding revelations about other things we had in common...

He sent me an early copy of the book - and my grandpa, Salem Bagersh, and his close pal Ahmed Bansser are among the people he dedicates his book too. I read Adel's book in one spine-tingling session and told him this was straight-up Netflix material!

I think my Yemeni and Ethiopian peeps will love the rich accounts of people, culture, and politics - and everyone will be dazzled by Adel's harrowing journey of survival.