- Suleiman el Dewani - the nine-year-old narrator
- Faraj el Dewani "Baba" - Suleiman's father
- Najwa "Mama" - Suleiman's mother
- Moosa - Baba's best friend
- Nasser - Baba's office clerk
- Kareem - Suleiman's next-door neighbor and best friend
- Ustath Rashid - Kareem's father and a co-conspirator of Baba; he has already been arrested when the book's narrative begins
- Sharief - a member of the Revolutionary Committee hunting Faraj el Dewani
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