Ahmed Gamal Eldin Abdel Ghany

Abdel-Ghany and his wife and son immigrated from Egypt in 1996. He had previously been in the navy and had worked at a hotel as a rooms division manager. Finding a job in Christchurch wasn’t easy and he eventually took a job at a steel company. He also ran a souvlaki shop with his wife and a food truck in Cathedral Sq called Egyptian Donuts. “[He was] a compassionate, loving, generous, giving man,” his son, Omar, said. “He was never one to sit still. Some people would be happy to sit back and get the unemployment benefit, that was never him.” Abdel-Ghany died at the Masjid Al Noor. Source: https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2019/03/end-of-our-innocence.