Lebanon: modern slavery and racism. Yesterday while sipping my coffee at café’ Younis Hamra, I turned around looking to see if any of my friends were hanging out, only to see Ali Mahfouz the man that appeared in a video beating  Alem Dechasa-Desisa, an Ethiopian domestic worker. A few days later, after the release of the video, we learned that Alem Dechasa-Desisa had killed herself. Ali Mahfouz, … Continue reading Lebanon: ongoing racism and abuse