Author Hisham Matar’s father was secretly jailed by Gaddafi in 1990 as a member of the NFSL, an organization attempting regime change and alleged to be supported by CIA Story Transcript PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Washington. In 1990, Jaballa Matar was in Cairo. He […]
Author Archives: Hisham Matar
Hisham Matar is a Libyan author. His debut novel In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize. Matar's essays have appeared in the Asharq Alawsat, The Independent, The Guardian, The Times and The New York Times. His second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance, was published on 3rd March 2011. He currently lives and writes in London.
