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The Real Maids of Beirut
September 8, 2011 By 3 Comments
By Dan Moshenberg If you’ve followed the news from the Lebanon over the last few years, you’ve read quite a bit about the difficult to desperate situation of domestic workers. Maids, child care providers, housekeepers face unrelenting abuse. They are assaulted, cheated out of their pay, imprisoned by their employers and trapped by visa conditionalities. […]
‘The Kaffirs’ of Sri Lanka
January 18, 2010 By 6 Comments
This fascinating short documentary, by filmmaker Kannan Arunasalam, tells the story of a small group of Sri Lankans of African descent and their attempts to “keep their culture alive in the face of falling numbers.” According to Arunasalam, “… “historians say that the Kaffirs of Sri Lanka started arriving from the eastern shores of Africa […]
