Turn left at Sadat Street and follow the narrow sidewalk to Sadat Tower, a charmless early-1970s apartment-turned-office-building.

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Many inhabitants, former residents of poor, charmless towns, also find a sense of community, of building something new.

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He is derided as charmless, even by some in his own party, but the martial aspect of opposition politics will suit him.

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We ascend the narrow wooden stairs (he has plans to widen the staircase, rip out the charmless elevator and flood the place with light) and arrive at the living quarters, decorated almost exclusively with the furniture that Owens has been designing since 2006.

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