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or the poverty of its understanding of the concept of state the political crew has performed a trick no less fragile and cruel than the racist and sectarian talk flying like sparks in a dry haystack the national carrier is being discussed as if it were a superman accused of sectarian preferentialism among the sons of a unified country having neglected some lebanese and deprived them of peace of mind they find themselves forced to fly with incompetent airlines hailing from inferior countries according to the lebanese racist pyramid the black box that the lebanese are looking for is the lebanese state whose plane has not taken off but is rather sinking and the political crew are but ghosts in the forms of captain survivors and angels january 26 2010 et409 posted by ms tee under migrant workers tags beirut et409 ethiopia lebanon 1 comment as most of this blog s readers know an ethiopian airlines flight crashed into the mediterranean just south of beirut a few minutes after take off early monday morning this tragedy has shed some light on a well known but less discussed lebanese connection to africa many of the lebanese on this flight most of them men were on their way to various countries in africa where they had jobs or businesses most of them are from the south 16 hail from the town of nabatiyeh alone so this tragedy is compounded by the sad facts of emigration and the estrangement الاغتراب الغربة from homeland and family imposed by harsh economic conditions and government neglect many lebanese politicians and citizens have commented on this phenomenon since the flight crashed but few have managed to throw the nets of empathy wide enough to include another group of passengers aboard flight 409 who have also had to endure emigration estrangement harsh economic conditions and much more most of the 31 ethiopians who were aboard this flight were female domestic workers heading back home after a long long stay abroad one can only hope that this shared tragedy will also bring forth a shared humanity why do you lebanese never treat us good screamed one ethiopian woman as security forces prevented her from entering the governmental hospital in beirut today to identify a body we are human beings like you god created us why don t i have the right to come in and see my sister from the guardian the list of passengers who boarded flight 409 can be found here in english you can also get to know some of the passengers on this facebook group december 30 2009 a recipe for disaster when women s rights and rights in general part ways posted by ms tee under citizen and state tags kolena laila 9 comments this post is part of the kolena laila initiative like most other places in the other arab world the lebanese laila is subject to an institutionalized form of patriarchy that finds its purest expression in the personal status when a lebanese woman is born she like her male counterpart say louai has a personal status and a familial status and she can ask for an extract ikhraj qayd a form of id of both when they get married however laila and louai part ways in the system whereas louai opens his own khanah a new familial extract listing the members of his nuclear family under his name laila is transferred from her father s extract to that of her husband s at first glance it might seem that the new khanah actually belongs to the married couple but should laila get a divorce she has to reapply to be transferred back to her father s khanah while her children remain under her divorcee s khanah this might sound like a trivial matter but bear with me many of the problems civil society is attempting to tackle today are linked to this form of registration into this personal status is written the sect where the children follow the father s it also locates the individual in the sectarian matrix upon which marriage divorce and inheritance laws are based had we had a matriarchal society instead where the khanahs are headed by women these would still be issues to contend with but because we live in a patriarchal society laila faces a problem louai does not face should she get married to a non lebanese she cannot start a khanah of her own under which she can include her children because laila can give neither her children nor her husband the lebanese citizenship though the way we are registered is not its cause this problem traces yet another thread forming this gordian knot of registration by a fluke of the system i happen to be one of few lebanese women who has a khanah of her own a few years ago i was discussing with a friend what might be a possible way to maintain this institutional independence should i get married to a lebanese eventually i did not so now i am extending the solution we came up with into a generic recipe for my other new problem giving the lebanese citizenship to my future children for this you would need 2 unmarried people 1 understanding family 1 or more baby born out of wedlock do not get married just yet or if married get a divorce have baby babies out of wedlock but in lebanon and register them in the nufus personal register as illegitimate mawlud ghayr shar i this will add the children to your khanah or usually the family s khanah and they will carry the last name of the family that acknowledges him documents needed for this procedure can be found here based upon this personal status go to internal security and get the children a lebanese passport each documents needed for this procedure can be found here finally get married or remarried to your foreign husband have him recognize the child or children as his own and live happily ever after to avoid the derision of bureaucrats you could really abuse the system and get your father to do the paperwork i know that doing this will cause problems to most lebanese women but i bring it up also to illustrate the interrelatedness of many of the problems civil society is attempting to address individually sectarianism religion patriarchy the way we are registered and how these are embedded in the smallest details of our personal lives i think that changing one aspect of the system without addressing more fundamental issues helps at some level but in the long run it is only a band aid that serves to make the system even more byzantine to be relevant for wider sections of society the right for a mother to give her family the lebanese citizenship and women s rights more generally need to be addressed both individually as well as part of the larger struggle for a more just more inclusive lebanon a disclaimer i do not know anyone who has tried this method and i am in no way saying it is fool proof in fact if you find any problems with it i would like to know before i try it myself december 19 2009 between rights and capital bank accounts for minors posted by ms tee under citizen and state economy 1 comment on thursday bank of beirut and the arab countries celebrated the first lebanese woman to open a bank account for her minor children the women s union of the progressive socialist party i e walid junblat s party in coordination with the central bank and the association of banks in lebanon was instrumental in bringing about this accomplishment initiated locally the project was funded by usaid and based on a legal study by the young lawyer paul morcos of justicia psp s women s union marketed the project primarily using the language of rights but the problematic and the way morcos proceeds to deal with it is a bit more complicated the full study can be found here but the main obstacle according to the banks was that in lebanon the father is the compulsory legal guardian وليّ جبري for minor children this is according to secular and religious law both christian and muslim this is a long story but secular in this particular case relates to an article from majallat al ahkam al shar iyya or mecelle in turkish this being the ottoman civil code of 1877 which was an attempt to codify the principles of the religious hanafi court byzantine indeed the issue hence risked stepping on spiritual toes and questioning the patriarchal and sectarian foundations of lebanon god forbid morcos circumvented the problem by shifting the focus from the gordian knot of guardianship and highlighting instead how allowing a woman to open such accounts not only does not threaten this existing structure but also contradicts rights accorded to women and enshrined in lebanese law a very intelligent solution given the imperfect circumstances the recommendations in morcos s study deal with the woman not from the point of view of her rights as a mother but as a stipulator assignor in trust in a commercial contract her son or daughter is the beneficiary and the bank the assignor the achievement nevertheless is not to be underestimated more so because it had to do with asserting rights already accorded to women by law and of which she has been stripped through cultural economic practices to meet this recommendation halfway the banks need to engineer account types to allow it to progress legally which brings me to another aspect of this accomplishment the other study that fed into the project was led by economist kamal hamdan and dealt with a completely different aspect of the issue at stake economic benefits the study demonstrates that this bank service would lead to an additional 100 000 bank accounts over the next ten years with a cumulative value of 400 thousand i think this too is key to understanding how concrete results were achieved in less than a year the project has all the right ingredients indicating broad political support a civil society actor linked to a sectarian party private banks interested in expanding their economic possibilities public institutions interested in empowering private interests and outside funding interested in shaping the world in its own image far from ideal but it seems to get things done december 3 2009 why are minarets a primary cause of insomnia posted by ms tee under europe religion 11 comments the vote to ban the construction of minarets in switzerland has elicited negative reactions from many non muslim quarters the european press religious leaders as well as some politicians have spoken out against it but it has also given an unexpected boost to the far right in europe in norway we woke up monday to a far right politician pondering a ban on the burqa and on the call to prayer the latter is allowed as long as it is under 64db but the scene is gloomy because this goes beyond individual politicians or parties the swiss vote has left many wondering whether similar referenda in other european countries would yield similar results what is happening in many countries of europe today when it comes to islam is a curious and complex phenomenon and relegating it to bigotry does not explain anything tariq ramadan has written one of the most reasonable articles i have come across that tries to make some sense of it he is right to point out that the minaret is a symbol the union démocratique du centre who proposed the ban in switzerland first considered targeting halal slaughter of animals but did not want to offend swiss jews minarets i might add work better here precisely because they are visible symbols but symbols of what this is the crux of ramadan s argument while european countries and citizens are going through a real and deep identity crisis the new visibility of muslims is problematic and it is scary at the very moment europeans find themselves asking in a globalising migratory world what are our roots who are we what will our future look like they see around them new citizens new skin colours new symbols to which they are unaccustomed the part of his article that calls for more muslim participation as a solution is open to debate wouldn t more visibility cause more fear but still he brings attention back to the main issue this is about europe as much as it is about islam in europe but ramadan s article raises more questions than it answers identity crisis fine but why muslims this issue predates 9 11 so the answer is not terrorism why not racism which offers more visible scapegoats in addition ramadan points a finger at the flame fanning populists but what about the liberal politicians what about for example the headscarf debate in france and jack straw s comments on the burqa don t they lend more legitimacy to anti islam sentiments than raving right wingers and how does this relate to europe s current wars in majority muslim countries and why should islam in europe be perceived as an extension of an external homogeneous islam rather than as a european phenomenon why is it that in norway for example where things are relatively great it is perfectly normal to find every once in a while reminders in the main stream press that muslims are norwegians too and one need only make such reminders about muslims and jews these days and as far as identity is concerned why does europe have to end where islam begins 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