‘It Chose Me’... Saeed Bitar Guards a Rare Jaguar in Darayya - Enab Baladi

‘It Chose Me’... Saeed Bitar Guards a Rare Jaguar in Darayya - Enab Baladi

At the end of al-Baladiya Street in Darayya (Rural Damascus, southwestern Syria), a black Jaguar sits by the roadside. Time and disuse have left their mark on it, yet it remains there. From a distance, it may look like just another old classic car. But getting closer to it, and then to its owner, opens the door to the story of a man who does not see it as a rare metal machine, but as part of his life and a long memory that has stayed with him de…