The focus is on the role of the kafala system in relation to race and domestic labour . However, for a bigger picture that allows us to contextualise all of the above, one should explore inequality, rentierism and the roots of Lebanon’s 2019 uprising.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51