The Lebanese revolution must abolish the kafala system
5 min readMar 15, 2021
This piece was originally published on Al Jazeera on November 14th, 2019.
On Tuesday, November 5, the 20th day of the ongoing uprising in Lebanon, an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Beirut arrived at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport. Its cargo was seven dead bodies of Ethiopian domestic workers who had died in Lebanon. According to Ethiopian journalist Zecharia…
