The #mena community in the #usa is diverse and continues growing. Although #lebanon is a tiny country with a population of no more than 6M, Lebanese-Americans top the list of MENA communities in the USA, amounting to more than 685,000 individuals. In contrast, a massive country like Egypt, with over 100 Million people, has almost 400,000 Egyptians in the USA.
These figures are alarming and explain Lebanon's brain drain and the massive migration waves of the Lebanese, especially following the bloody civil war, due to conflicts driven by sectarianism, nepotism, clientelism, corruption, incompetency, and mismanagement in the public sector, to name some. The recent episode of such "behavior" yielded the socioeconomic collapse in early 2020 in #lebanon. Lebanese migration will not improve; it will worsen by the month!
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The MENA community in the US is very diverse and continues to grow. We worked with artist Noran Morsi to create this map of how our community identifies. Read more about it https://lnkd.in/ePvprcFa
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