Wissam al-Dali, a child psychiatrist who worked for SOS, received Oweis and his four siblings when they came from the Mezzeh airport prison, where they were held with their mother for six months. They “were in a terrible state,” al-Dali told me. It was winter, and the two youngest, 4-month-old twins who were born in prison, were wearing nothing but cloth diapers. Oweis was scared and withdrawn, al-Dali said, traits she had often seen in the children of detainees.
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