Lebanon: “Ordinary' Racism

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 @ 15:59 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:
Lebanon, Palestine
Topics:
Racism, War & Conflict

Lebanese blogger Sophia translates a newspaper article which caught her eyes here.
‘The original title is ‘Deep Rooted Racism in Lebanon'. I decided to translate this article after hearing this evening ordinary Lebanese on most world news channels giving to the press racist remarks about Palestinians. There was even a doctor who volunteered to help the army who answered Radio Canada's journalist question about what is happening in the camp Nahr El-Bared with this sentence: ”You know they are not Lebanese”, meaning ‘we can kill them because they are lower casts, inferior'. This doctor forgot however that Lebanese kill other Lebanese,' she explains.

2 comments

  • Sophia

    Hi Amira,
    Many people around me, who are not Lebanese, feel lost and are trying hard to understand what is happening in Lebanon. It is for them and for those Lebanese who prefer not to understand that I wrote this article, to force into minds an inconvenient truth. Thanks for linking.

    # 2007-05-23 at 19:24 pm
    Reply to this
  • Amira Al Hussaini

    You are more than welcome Sophie. Thanks for the effort in translating that particular article!

    # 2007-05-23 at 22:12 pm
    Reply to this

Join the Conversation

Authors, please log in »

Guidelines

  • All comments are moderated. Do not submit your comment more than once or it may be identified as spam.
  • Please treat others with respect. Comments containing hate speech, obscenity, and personal attacks will not be approved.