Parade and Festival for Workers' Day 2013

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Migrant Workers in Lebanon: No to Medieval Treatment

By: Sanaa Khoury, Al-Akhbar English, edited translation from the Arabic Edition, published Friday, April 27, 2012

The Migrant Workers’ Parade and Festival, set for Sunday in Beirut, is seeking to “change mentalities” about foreign workers in Lebanon.
African migrant workers continue to be called fahmeh (charcoal) or abed (slave) on Lebanon’ streets. Asians can still be addressed as “Jackie Chan” or “Bruce Lee.” Arab laborers are routinely referred to as mukhabarat (informers) or as “stinkers.”

The racism practiced by part of Lebanese society against migrant workers is medieval. Yet the Lebanese state refuses to enact laws