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Samira Soueidan's story is not unusual in Lebanon. The Burj Hammoud resident fell in love, married and started a family.When her husband passed away in 1994, Soueidan was left with four children the Lebanese state viewed as foreigners. Her crime? Soueidan had married an Egyptian. While Lebanese law allows men to pass on their nationality to their non-Lebanese wives and children.

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