Confronting anti-black racism in the Arab world

By Susan Abulhawa:  The recent case of Alem Dechesa brought to light the horrors faced by migrant workers in Lebanon. Dechesa, a domestic worker from Ethiopia, committed suicide after suffering terrible mental and physical abuse at the hands of her Lebanese employers, whose savage beating of her in front of the Ethiopian Consulate went viral last year.  … An extension to Arab anti-black racism is an aspiration to all that our former – and current – colonisers possess.. Read More…