In 2013, following the ouster of former President Mohammed Morsi, his supporters rallied in some squares in Egypt, including Al-Tawhid mosque square in Port Said.
The area witnessed peaceful protests led by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Free and Justice party as well as other parties and Port Said younth.
The protests continued for months. A sit-in that followed the steps of that in Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adaweya continued throughout the holy month of Ramadan until Eid al-Fitr.
The public prosecutor decides to disperse the sit-in. Media outlets and human rights organizations hurry to witness the process.  However, in Al-Tawhid mosque square, the situation was tense. The leadership is now at the hands of the coalition to support legitimacy, youth against coup, students against coup, and Rabaawy Ultras.
Some online pages pf students supporting Morsi have posted calls inciting violence against policemen and their families. There were also posts and comments like “whoever hears a blast please like our post”, proving their implication in explosions.
Now, and after several years, some of them are released after their jail term ended. Others are still in jail, or remain at large.
On Thursday, September 19, 2013, the two-months sit-in in Al-Tawhid square ended following clashes between the protestors and drivers of mini vans near al-Nasr hospital.
Security forces in near by Al-Azhareya area decided to interfere to end the clashes, causing attack and retreats around the mosque.
Mohamed Qazaz was shot in his neck and moved to hospital. The situation remaind tense and fire shots were heard everywhere.  Lights were turned off insde the mosque, then someone called Sohayb stepped out of the mosque carrying the Al-Qaeda black flag.
Sohayb’s friend said that he used to carry the black banner while everyone else carried the green flag of the Muslim Brotherhood reading ‘there’s no God but Allah”.
In 2014, police forces announced the arrest of a terrorist cell in which Sohayb was a member. His friend E. A said: “He was charged with carrying out explosions. He was implicated in more than one case. He was sentenced to a great deal of years in jail. He will probably stay there forever. In one case, he was handed a 15-years jail term.”
“Sohayb’s father adopted extremist views. He was arrested many times by the state security forces during Mubarak’s era, but Sohayb is even worth,” is friend added.
Abdul Rahman’s father was just like Sohayb’s father. He had a file in the state security agency and was jailed during Mubarak’s rule many times.
Abdul Rahman Walid refused a peaceful solution. When he was urged by his friends to join the protests at al-Tawhid square, he said: “I will not come until you have arms.”
The past is the factory that makes the present. At the age of 15, Abdul Rahman was a successful student who passed the exams of Al-Azhar preparatory stage to join the secondary one.
His friends and teachers tell the same stories about him, with some slightly different details.
M. D., a close friend of Abdul Rahman who asked not to be fully named, said that “At the start of the Islamic State (Daesh), Abdul Rahman’s father joined the group after he was hinted by police in Egypt.”
“I almost spent most of my day with Abdul Rahman. His father used to contact young men at the age of 15 to 18. One of them was arrested at the airport before heading to Turkey. He confessed that he was going to Iraq via Turkey to join Daesh and that Abdul Rahman’s father was contacting him. Security forces raided Abdul Rahman’s home but he was not there. His family called him and advised him not to go back home. However, he went to his neighborhood to have a look, taking advantage that none of the policemen know him.”
Abdul Rahman later told his friend that there were central security formations, commandos and special forces. He added that they broke into his home, and vehicles were stationed in the street next to his house. He had to spend the night somewhere else where. In Ramadan 2014, Abdul Rahman packed and told his mother that he agreed with his father to travel to Iraq via Turkey.
M.D. adds: “Abdul Rahman told me that he was arrested in Turkey and released after two weeks. He then headed to Iraq. This was three years ago.  We used to communicate via the Facebook messages. The last thing I lknew about him was that he attended course on the basics of Islam, the Jihad and its history and purpose as well as how to use arms.”
After one year, in Ramadan 2015, Abdul Rahman told his friend that he was going to get married. His friend was surprised but Abdul Rahman told him that any young man who becomes an adolescent should marry. He was only 16 years old.
“We received no news about him for a while, then someone came and asked us for a photo of Abdul Rahman, saying that he was martyred.”
His friend M.D. and others told us: “A while after his death, we received Facebook messages saying: How are you? I am Abdul Rahman. We didn’t believe that. We replied: “Abdul Rahman is dead. We saw it on TV. Who are you?” Whoever sent us the messages saw our reply and blocked us. Since then, we heard nothing about Abdul Rahman Walid.”
Abdul Rahman’s story is not the only one among students and teachers of  Al_Azhar schools. One of Abdul Rahman’s teachers joined Jabhat Al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front) militant group in Syria.
His students said he was a good teacher who used to give private tutorials for free.
One of his colleagues told us: “He used to consider me an infidel and never prayed after me when I led prayers as imam. He said the reason was I allow students to cheat in exams.”
Other colleagues said he travelled abroad and we never heard anything about him.

A close friend of the teacher, who asked not to be named, gave us an idea about his life. “We rejected the idea of travelling abroad, particularly that the situation in Syria has worsened amid an ongoing conflict between the Free Syrian Army and the country’s Armed Forces. We warned him of leaving his family alone. We tried to pressure him not to travel but in vain,” he said.
The same source added: “The idea of travelling to Syria suddenly emerged. The reason behind it was unclear, probably a psychological one. We used to follow the news on the internet. We disagreed with him but we were keen on knowing what happened to him. Later, we knew from one of his friends that he was injured in his feet.”
The source quoted Al-Azhar teacher as saying that he was sitting with some of his colleagues then unknown militants attacked them, wounding him in his feet.
“He needed two surgeries, to be operated in a well-equipped hospital. He went to Turky to undergo one of them and wanted to come back to Egypt to undergo the second. When the first surgery succeeded and he was able to walk again, he decided to return to Syria.”
“He wanted to apply the principles of Islam according to his own viewpoint. He wanted to apply the penalties as ordered by God, but he failed,” his friend said.
Some of his friends and students also noted that he used to talk about “supporting our brothers in Syria” and “the jihad against the tyrant Bashar and his aides”.
Asking the source of the story about his feelings towards the teacher, he said: “I was somehow sad. We knew from the internet that he was killed. We saw his photo. A while after returning to Syria, he blew himself up in an ambush while driving an explosive-laden car.”