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Lebanese Women Married to Foreigners Fight for Equal Rights

by Sreeraman on March 08, 2010 at 12:21 PM Women Health News

Samira Soueidan thought she had won a major battle last year when a judge ruled she could pass on her Lebanese citizenship to her children, a first for women wed to foreigners in this tiny Mediterranean nation.

Lebanese Women Married to Foreigners Fight for Equal Rights

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Her victory was short-lived, however, as the decision was quickly appealed, highlighting the struggle facing thousands of Lebanese women married to foreigners but prevented by law from passing on their nationality to their spouse or children.

"When my attorney called to say that the judge had ruled in my favour after a nine-year legal fight, I was shaking," recalled the frail 48-year-old widow, who was married to an Egyptian and has four children.

"Our laws are unfair and completely disregard women," said Soueidan, sitting in her modest living room in a working class neighbourhood of Beirut and drawing nervously on a cigarette.

Under legislation adopted in 1925, 18 years before Lebanon's independence from France, only Lebanese men can get citizenship for their spouses and offspring.

The measure often leads to surreal situations in which children born and raised in Lebanon to a foreign father face costly legal and social difficulties and in many instances end up rejected by the only country they know.

"Every year I have to get residency permits for my children, I have to come up with the fee and I have to undergo the same questioning" by the Lebanese authorities, lamented Soueidan, who began working as a cleaning lady after her husband died in 1994.

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