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Portraits of Lebanon’s domestic workers confront social prejudices

Lebanese artist Chaza Charafeddine explores the dreams and discrimination of domestic workers by making them dress up as their heroes.
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“If you are a maid in Lebanon, everyone sees you as inferior. Others don't think that you may have dreams of your own,” Hana, a 23-year-old domestic worker from Ethiopia, said.

But, for an entire month, Hana felt herself turn into a “star,” when she became one of the 10 models in a photography exhibition titled “Maidames” at Beirut’s Agial Art Gallery.

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