It was 19 January 1983 when Joseph, 23, went missing after driving his father’s truck to transport vegetables from the Metn mountains to markets in Beirut. His family later heard that he had been kidnapped, another victim of Lebanon’s long civil war, which ran from 1975 until 1990.
His sisters Hana* and Fadia* asked at every detention centre and military base in the country about their brother. Eventually, they were told he had been detained in Syria. Despite several trips to detention centres in Syria, including the notorious Tadmur prison, they left without news of Joseph.
