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The Interviews

Starting over the next few months I will be conducting a number of bilingual interviews on Lebanon with people that I admire who live in Lebanon or who have left Lebanon. Since 1990 Lebanon has been experiencing what is misleadingly called a postwar period. The warlords that built their status and their capital (financial, symbolic, […]

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What it means to be black and African in Lebanon

Post author By Joey Ayoub
Post date June 29, 2020
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Raw stories from 21 black African students at the American University of Beirut

Tags Kafala system, Lebanon, racism

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The People Without Cinema, by Abounaddara

Post author By Joey Ayoub
Post date February 4, 2020
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“They can only testify to the events they experience by exhibiting the indignity inflicted upon them”