BEIRUT: “Tell me where you are, visit me even once in the dream.” So begins Laila al-Shabab’s ode to her brother Antoine, or Tony, who went missing in Zahle during the Lebanese Civil War in 1986, and has never been found. “I’ve written a lot for him, and a lot of things haven’t been written,” she said. “The most beautiful things are those that have not been written because they can’t be described.” Laila was only 17 when Tony was kidnapped. She was outside the country, and would remain away for three more years, the fact of his absence hidden from her by her family. “I always said I wanted to speak to Tony, and they came up with a hundred excuses,” she said. The last time she saw Tony, he had dropped her off near the airport just before her flight. [Link]