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Tourism Ministry bans discrimination at beaches
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May 18, 2012 01:38 AM
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BEIRUT: The Tourism Ministry has opened the summer beach season by banning resorts from discriminating on the basis of race, nationality or disability, but reports of bias in entry policies persist and some owners appear unwilling to conform to the new regulations. The issue of racism at Lebanon’s...
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Cemeteries in Palestinian camps short on space
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May 16, 2012 01:20 AM
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BURJ AL-BARAJNEH, Lebanon: The gravedigger of Burj al-Barajneh has a tough job. He’s been working in the camp’s only cemetery since 1986, when the bloody War of the Camps put many refugee camps under siege and kept the bodies coming. And Salim Safadi’s job is about to get harder....
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Youth, black and in Lebanon: Youth of color face discrimination, racism
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May 09, 2012 01:37 AM
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BEIRUT: They told her she was ugly. They refused to play with her, saying her dark skin would dirty their hands. They broke her teeth. But Meyada kept trying to make friends at her public elementary school in Mar Elias. Her mother, Sudanese refugee Ikhlass Jomaa, took to standing outside the...
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Rally calls for migrant workers’ rights
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April 30, 2012 01:20 AM
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BEIRUT: Hundreds of people took to the streets Sunday to advocate for the rights of migrant workers and celebrate their cultures, in a pre-Labor Day parade that included dancing, singing, and sloganeering. A crowd of around 400, hoisting country flags and signs, weaved from Dora to St....
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Rally demands rights for migrant workers, celebrates their culture
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April 29, 2012 04:26 PM
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BEIRUT: Hundreds took to streets Sunday to advocate for the rights of migrant workers and celebrate their cultures, in a pre-Labor Day parade that included dancing, singing, and sloganeering. A crowd of around 400, hoisting country flags and signs, weaved from Dora to St. Joseph’s Church in...
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Alem suicide highlights sponsorship system’s flaws
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April 18, 2012 01:11 AM
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BEIRUT: Alem Dechasa-Desisa left Ethiopia the day after Christmas last year. She headed for Lebanon, where she planned to make enough money to support her two children. Within three months, she was dead, the victim of an apparent suicide. Even before her death, Alem had become something of a cause...
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Walking the front line of Lebanon’s Civil War
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April 12, 2012 02:02 AM
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BEIRUT: School-room history books gloss over it, and there’s no national memorial to its dead, but Lebanon’s 1975-90 Civil War is very much present in the memories of those who lived it and those who came after. It’s also embedded in Beirut’s architectural fabric. The city...
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Shopping for antiques, and personalities, in Basta
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April 03, 2012 01:36 AM
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BEIRUT: Hasan Mohammad Hijazi’s Basta antiques shop is filled with beauty. The Bohemian crystal, Persian rugs and delicate vases are enough to make any budding aesthete stop and ponder the chandeliers. The area of west Beirut where Hijazi’s store stands has been a market of sorts for...
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Palestinian women aim for power in refugee camps
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March 31, 2012 01:45 AM
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BEDDAWI, Lebanon: If the lights go out for too long, if the water isn’t flowing as it should, or if neighbors fight, residents of Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps must turn to the popular committees. Since the 1970s, these bodies have governed the camps, acting as default...
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Growing your own food - on the balcony and in the city
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March 29, 2012 02:25 AM
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BEIRUT: Loathing the lack of green space in Lebanon’s urban areas? Wishing for fresh food within reach, or just feeling inspired by the season? Join the growing ranks of the urban gardener, city-dwellers who are growing their own food, often in small spaces. With a sunny spot, a few supplies...
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Beirut transforms into luxury shopping haven
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March 28, 2012 02:18 AM
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BEIRUT: Once, both vegetables and high fashion could be had in Downtown Beirut. Before the war and the bulldozers came, the so-called Paris of the East was a luxury destination and a bargain lover’s paradise.Now, shoppers are more likely to find Chanel than a cucumber, and Prada than a potato –...
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Ethiopian envoy: I have learned a ‘big lesson’
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March 24, 2012 01:51 AM
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BEIRUT: Ethiopia’s consul general in Lebanon, Asaminew Debelie Bonssa, said he has learned from the abuse and death of Alem Dechasa-Desisa, but he believes the problems of Ethiopian domestic workers in the country would best be solved by legalizing their labor. Speaking to The Daily Star...
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Land Day march will not reach the border
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March 24, 2012 01:47 AM
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By Annie Slemrod and Mohammed ZaatariThe Daily StarBEIRUT/SIDON, Lebanon: Despite previous announcements that a planned Land Day march at the end of the month would go to the Israeli-Lebanese border, the Lebanese branch of the Global March to Jerusalem will instead head to Beaufort Castle, east of...
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Escort services in Lebanon slip through cracks of law
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March 17, 2012 02:08 AM
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BEIRUT: The websites offer glamor, sex and options. Age, hair color, nationality and measurements can be selected online. With an email or a phone call, Lebanon’s online escort services promise that beautiful women, and some men, can be delivered to your door and be at your service –...
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Ethiopian consulate sues Lebanese man in abuse case
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March 16, 2012 02:16 AM
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BEIRUT: The Ethiopian consulate in Lebanon has filed a lawsuit against Ali Mahfouz, the man who was caught on tape beating domestic worker Alem Dechasa outside her consulate. Dechasa committed suicide Wednesday. Asaminew Debelie Bonssa, Ethiopia’s consul general in Lebanon, told The Daily...
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