A Libyan journalist reunites with her family after 44 years thanks to TikTok.

In a story full of emotions and surprises, Libyan journalist and activist "Hanan Al-Maqoub" succeeded in finding her biological family after 44 years of being lost. Hanan had grown up in an orphanage, then was adopted by a Libyan family when she was two years old. However, her life was full of challenges. After her adoptive parents passed away, she faced a legal shock when the care home demanded her return at the age of 26, leading her to leave Benghazi and engage in media and human rights work in Egypt. Suddenly, her life took an unexpected turn while hosting a live show on "TikTok" called "Let Me Tell You." She received a call from a young man named "Omar Musa," who told her about his mother's story of losing her baby at birth, but the striking resemblance between Hanan and her biological siblings made his mother doubt her death. This call raised suspicions for Hanan, who decided to contact Omar Musa after the show, only to discover that he is her biological brother, and her real family had been searching for her all those years. Hanan said in a video she shared on her social media accounts: "I thought I was of unknown descent, cut off from the family tree, only to discover that I have a family that resembles me, my mother is a copy of me, and I have uncles and aunts, and I belong to a large tribe in the city of Sabha." Her feelings were mixed between joy and astonishment, feeling her life had changed from being a lost person to being part of a large family that had been searching for her for decades. Painfully, Hanan had lived her whole life in psychological alienation and isolation due to the absence of family, even depriving herself of marriage for fear of society's judgment. Nevertheless, the greatest happiness in this story remains her discovery of her family after all those years, despite the immense pain caused by those lost years.