Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size Fadi X has no new friends yet; he left all his old ones behind. Fadi X has no family left; they died years ago. Fadi X has no country, no nationality and no passport. Fadi X has no car, but that’s no big deal because he likes public transport. Though he is an attractive man, intelligent and gentle, with soft brown eyes and a good physique, Fadi X has no girlfriend. Until recently, he didn’t even have a proper name. Which is why for most of his life he has been known as Fadi X. As calamitous as they have been, Fadi’s troubles all began with a bureaucratic oversight. His father, Hasan Moussa, had been a Syrian soldier stationed in the northern Lebanese village of Darbechtar in 1985, when he met his Lebanese mother, Hiam Chalouhy. The relationship was problematic: Hasan was Muslim, Hiam was Christian. No only that, but Hasan was part of an occupying force. (Syria invaded Lebanon in 1976, during the country’s civil war, and only withdrew its troops in 2005.) Nevertheless, Hasan and Hiam got married, and, in 1991, had Fadi. In Lebanon, women cannot pass… Read full this story
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