The Mehlis Report

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Saman Yarid has three sisters: Josephine, Mary, and Emily. Josephine was kidnapped in 1983 on the demarcation line between East and West Beirut. Mary lives in Baltimore; Emily in Paris. Mary’s husband is her cousin Hana Yarid. The two of them obtained special permission from the archbishop and got married. They crossed the Atlantic in 1984 and were blessed with four children: Salman, Ilya, Joseph, and Thomas. Across from the Maronite Church in Baltimore, they opened a Lebanese restaurant as well as a bakery next door that sells pita bread and different types of manakish sandwiches: minced lamb, dried yogurt and bulgur, thyme. Emily is a translator at UNESCO. Her husband is French. He’s an administrator at the Paris II University (Assas). They own an apartment in an old building on Rue Georges Saché in the 14th arrondissement, and have two children: Annie and Jack. Blond and blue-eyed, Annie resembles her father, Charles Crubellier; Jack has black eyes and dark skin — the legacy of all the Middle Eastern ancestors he has never known.

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