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Testimonies from Beirut

Kafala prisoners in a country at war

“You wait, maybe the war will end”. That's what a Lebanese woman said to her domestic worker, before locking her in her house and fleeing abroad, far from the Israeli bombardments, a few weeks ago.

In episode 6 of our podcast ‘Testimonies from Beirut’, we turn our microphone to a Cameroonian woman who arrived in Lebanon in 2018. A country she has been unable to leave since her passport was confiscated, caught in the infernal trap of the Kafala system. She tells us about her daily life in Beirut, as well as that of thousands of other African women, most of them domestic workers, trapped in the hell of war, which is added to the one they have already known, for some of them, for years.

"They're invisible women,” she says, "but some of them are so strong that not even the bombings can sway them.”


“You wait, maybe the war will end”. That's what a Lebanese woman said to her domestic worker, before locking her in her house and fleeing abroad, far from the Israeli bombardments, a few weeks ago.In episode 6 of our podcast ‘Testimonies from Beirut’, we turn our microphone to a Cameroonian woman who arrived in Lebanon in 2018. A country she has been unable to leave since her passport was...