A Nine-Year Old Palestinian Worker
When Imad, a kid from the refugee camp, grows up, the laws will deprive him from many jobs, no matter how many degrees he might get..
When Imad, a kid from the refugee camp, grows up, the laws will deprive him from many jobs, no matter how many degrees he might get..
Mahmoud is a Palestinian who left Syria in 2013 and went to Lebanon to study computer sciences. The situation of the Palestinian refugees camp forced him to work in a phone store…
Two semesters before completing his university degree, Saber discovered he had cancer. He passed away before realizing his dream.
This is the story of a local media initiative, whose protagonists are young women and men of different nationalities, living in the city and sharing the hopes and concerns of its people.
Laila is young woman from Tripoli who could not enter to a hospital for a procedure for lack of identification. She had to borrow her cousin’s ID and impersonate her to have access to hospitalization, which put her life in grave danger.
Abdallah is a young man from Bab al-Tabbeneh in Tripoli. His parents never registered their marriage, so he grew up stateless. After numerous failed attempts to obtain the Lebanese nationality, he found no one to resort to, so he took to the sea.
Qamar (pseudonym) is girl in her early 20s. After being offered help on her statelessness case by a prominent lawyer, Qamar met with him in his office. Rather than a helping hand, she found a rapist who took advantage of her vulnerability.
On Mohammad who is banned from love, work and travel, and his excruciating journey to retrieve his nationality. On Abdallah whose many failures made him resort to the sea. On Laila who is denied the basic right of access to health care. And, on Qamar, the girl whose vulnerable position of statelessness exposed her to rape…
From Ain Toura, Mrouj and Bikfaya to Beirut, aboard buses where many things happen from racism, harassment, friendships, discoveries and old time reminiscing.
Mohamad, who cannot see, assembled an archive of computed games and a phone repertory for the visually impaired. This earned him the nickname of “Ogero number 2” in his region of Nabatiyeh