“I didn’t know your father before prison,” Ehlayyel said. “I came to know him first by his voice. When one of us young prisoners was being taken to the interrogation room, your father would call out, ‘Boys, if you get stuck, say Jaballa Matar told you to do it.’ I loved him for that, because you have no idea what hearing that did for my heart. Strength at the weakest hour.
