As a young girl, Leela Hazzah spent long summers in her parentsâ?? native Egypt, lying awake at night on a rooftop hoping to hear lions in the desert. Her father had slept on the same roof as a child to stay cool and listen to lions roar. “Every summer I would come and wait; I want to say years of waiting,” says Leela, a childâ??s excitement and frustration alive in her voice. Her father didnâ??t have the heart to tell her she would never hear them: The lions there had long since been hunted to extinction.
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