![]() ![]() The Matars were never informed whether Jaballa was among the 1,270 prisoners gunned down on 29 June 1996 in the signature massacre of the Gadaffi era. He was taken to the notorious Abu Salim prison in Tripoli, as were several of his male relatives. His wife and two sons never saw him again. A decade later, he was kidnapped by Libyan security forces. In 1979, Jaballa Matar, a businessman who opposed Colonel Muammar Gadaffi, took his family into exile in Cairo. By returning to Libya in 2012, and chronicling his search for the truth of what happened to his father, he hopes to find release from the uncertainties that constrain his life. This sense of living in the in between is pervasive: Matar is in between countries and in between states of being. N ot knowing the date his father died “complicated the boundary between life and death,” writes Hisham Matar in his lyrical memoir of returning to his native Libya. ![]()
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