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Foreigners in their own country

by Rana Hanna

This February, the US Democratic Senator from Illinois Barack Obama announced that he was running for the American presidency in 2008. Other than being erudite and bright, the 45-year-old Mr. Obama has attracted the media’s attention because of his very un-WASPish background and the fact that he is genuinely African-American: as his “unpronounceable name” (his words) might suggest, Mr. Obama is half- Kenyan; It is his mother who is the American. So here we have an African applying for the top job in the world. All very well you might say—it’s all in keeping with the wonderful opportunities afforded by the US to immigrants. However, Lebanese mothers whose children were sired by foreign fathers might not instantly applaud Mr. Obama’s ambitions; in fact they would probably be green with envy. Their children cannot even be Lebanese, let alone run for political office. Furthermore, their kids cannot apply for a passport

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