Hisham Matar Wikipedia
Early life. Hisham Matar was born in New York City, in 1970, the second of two father, Jaballa Matar, who was considered a political dissident for his opinions on Colonel Muammar Qaddafi's coup in 1969, had to move the family away from Tripoli and was working for the Libyan delegation to the United Nations, in New York, at the time of Matar's birth.