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Faced with the crisis, more and more Lebanese choose to go into exile

2020-07-10T20:53:53.210Z


This wave of emigration is not a new phenomenon. But it is accentuated as the Lebanese economic crisis plunges the country into a whirlwind of uncertainties.


In Beirut

It’s 5:30 a.m. at Beirut Airport, and Lama Mubarak Saab is late. The young woman in her thirties embraces her husband quickly, then runs to check in for her flight to Canada, her two young sons behind her.

"We don't know what will happen, whether there will be a war with Israel, or a civil war. I have no idea, but I think it's better that I go home to Canada, "she confides in a breath, before disappearing with her mountain of luggage behind the first security checks.

With reddened eyes, her husband, Wafic Saab, watches her family leave, not knowing when he will see her again. However, he encouraged his wife of Lebanese origin, born in Canada, to return after twelve years of living together in Beirut. "She loved Lebanon, but everything has changed so quickly in the past six months. Life here has become very hard. I don't know what's in store for us, ”he says.

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Source: lefigaro

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