![]() ![]() In the 1970s the family lived in Tripoli but in 1980 the family moved to Cairo. He had high hopes for the Qaddafi regime but after a couple of years he resigned and returned to Libya to work with the opposition. He was released five months later, stripped of his rank and given an administrative role in Libya’s Mission to the United Nations in New York. ![]() Jaballa had been on business in London at the time and rushed back to Libya where he was immediately arrested. He had been a Libyan army officer when Myanmar Qaddafi overthrew King Idris. Jaballa Matar was a wealthy Libyan, having made a small fortune importing Japanese and Western goods to the Middle East. The Return-Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between, is a memoir about his 2012 return to Libya and attempt to come to terms with the unfathomable loss of his father, Jaballa Matar. Hisham Matar, an American born British-Libyan author, is an acclaimed novelist and essayist. ![]()
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