Majd Kamalmaz, then 59, died in Syria where he was detained since February 2017, according to a statement from the Bring Our Families Home Campaign.
Majd Kamalmaz, who has family in Grand Prairie, was detained after being stopped at a checkpoint in Damascus. U.S. officials have told his family he is likely dead.
FILE - Maryam Kamalmaz hold a photo of her father with some of his 14 grandchildren in Grand Prairie, Texas, Jan. 17, 2024. U.S. officials have developed specific and highly credible intelligence suggesting that Majd Kamalmaz, an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died, Maryam Kamalmaz said Saturday, May 18.
Majd Kamalmaz, then 59, died in Syria where he was detained since February 2017, according to a statement from the, which is comprised of family members of American hostages and detainees. Kamalmaz, whose family has a home in Grand Prairie, decided to cross into Syria to see if he could provide any help and visit family members that were suffering from cancer.Kamalmaz was stopped at a checkpoint in Damascus and arrested by authorities, according to his family.
Jonathan Franks, a spokesperson for the campaign, wrote in a statement that Majd Kamalmaz “was a kindhearted, loving and caring person who embodied these qualities as a son, husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle.” According to his family, Kamalmaz was born in Syria but raised in the U.S. and had an American passport. All of his children were born in the U.S., his daughter said at the roundtable.
In a statement with the campaign, she wrote, “he will be missed tremendously, yet we hope that his legacy of helping others in need lives on and is carried out by many.”, Kamalmaz helped create the organization’s mental health projects for refugees and survivors of detention in Lebanon and Jordan.
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