An Odd Friendship on the Tigris
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Gus Dur’s associations while studying in Baghdad changed his religious views. He was friends with Jews and Iraqi Shi’ites.
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ON the bank of the Tigris River, Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) serves his guest some coffee. He first met him at the end of 1966 at the office of Ar-Rahmadani, a small company in Baghdad, Iraq, which imported textiles from Europe and America. The man’s name was Ramin.
Wahid worked as a translator for correspondence at the office. He worked from 11am to 2pm, spending his free time making extra money to buy books and watch films, if he was not in
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