The Lebanese tourism minister has come under fire after saying he was happy about the current problems Turkey is facing and many in the country have called for him to resign over his “racist comments”. Speaking in an interview on MTV Lebanon on Friday, Lebanese Tourism Minister and Deputy Chairman of Tashnag, a small Armenian …
Lebanese lecturer in hot water after slamming student for ‘stupid’ hijab
Maryam Dajani, an 18-year-old student at the American University of Beirut, was discriminated against by an instructor during a sociology class for wearing a headscarf. “Yesterday I experienced appalling discriminative and abusive remarks from my instructor Dr. Samir Khalaf, regarding the scarf I wear around my head, that left me in shock and utter disgust,” …
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Syrian refugees at risk as extreme weather hits Lebanon
The lives of 70,000 Syrian refugees in makeshift camps across Lebanon are at risk as the country faces extreme weather conditions and flooding, the United Nations’ refugee protection agency has said. A heavy storm with colder temperatures and high winds, dubbed Norma by Lebanese meteorologists, has affected some 11,301 refugees at 361 different sites across Lebanon since on January …
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Lebanon repatriates dozens of Syrian refugees
Lebanon is continuing to send back small groups of refugees to Syria. In the past 24 hours, dozens of refugees who had fled the war in Syria have been returned from different parts of Lebanon. Lebanon has hosted about one million refugees since the start of the war in 2011. The local population is four …
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OTV’s Cartoon on Syrian Refugees in Lebanon Sparks Racism Controversy
The caricature was a response to a statement by Education Minister Akram Chehayeb supporting the right of non-Lebanese students to enroll in school. In a statement posted on Twitter Friday, Chehayeb wrote: “Despite all the challenges, we will not allow any student to remain outside of school in Lebanon, whatever his nationality, and we will …
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