Sit-in by Lebanese families of the missing in front of the ESCWA office in Beirut on Jan. 29, 2010. (Credit: Hassan Assal/L'Orient-Le Jour; Illustration by Jaimee Lee Haddad)
She has only two pictures of her father left. One was taken at his engagement, where he donned a suit and tie. Another picture Nivine Zarkout keeps in her wallet. Back then, photos were still on glossy paper. The Zarkout family distributes them one by one to those who say they can help, hoping to glean information or, who knows, perhaps even find Walid, missing since Jan. 25, 1985. Like every morning, that day, the father of three little girls went to have coffee near the sea in Beirut, around Ain al-Mreisseh, before going to work at the port. “He never came home,” said Nivine, his daughter, who was six years old then. The family would later learn that Walid had been kidnapped and handed over to the Syrian regime. Read more Who are the Lebanese detainees released from Syrian prisons four months ago? After the war, the Lebanese...
She has only two pictures of her father left. One was taken at his engagement, where he donned a suit and tie. Another picture Nivine Zarkout keeps in her wallet. Back then, photos were still on glossy paper. The Zarkout family distributes them one by one to those who say they can help, hoping to glean information or, who knows, perhaps even find Walid, missing since Jan. 25, 1985. Like every morning, that day, the father of three little girls went to have coffee near the sea in Beirut, around Ain al-Mreisseh, before going to work at the port. “He never came home,” said Nivine, his daughter, who was six years old then. The family would later learn that Walid had been kidnapped and handed over to the Syrian regime. Read more Who are the Lebanese detainees released from Syrian prisons four months ago? After the war, the Lebanese...
