João Sousa PhotosIt is a story repeated thousands of times over for the children of Eastern European mothers and Lebanese fathers: In the 1990s, Miriam's father went to study at a university in Ukraine. There, he met Kcenia and fell in love.
In their case, Kcenia was an Orthodox Christian while Miriam's father was a Shia Muslim with roots in south Lebanon. Kcenia would end up converting to Islam. Back then, there were precious few mosques in Kyiv - and no halal grocery stores. Now, there are about 5,000 Ukrainian citizens in Lebanon, Ukraine's Charges d'Affaires Ovcharov Oleksandr tells me, "mostly Ukrainian women and their children." That's on top of the many Russian and other Eastern European citizens who came here via marriage, or are the children of such relationships.
Words by Madeline Edwards, with my photography for Inkstickmedia
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In their case, Kcenia was an Orthodox Christian while Miriam's father was a Shia Muslim with roots in south Lebanon. Kcenia would end up converting to Islam. Back then, there were precious few mosques in Kyiv - and no halal grocery stores. Now, there are about 5,000 Ukrainian citizens in Lebanon, Ukraine's Charges d'Affaires Ovcharov Oleksandr tells me, "mostly Ukrainian women and their children." That's on top of the many Russian and other Eastern European citizens who came here via marriage, or are the children of such relationships.
Words by Madeline Edwards, with my photography for Inkstickmedia
#ukraine #Ukrainian #lebanon #lebanese #middleeast #war #ukrainewar #inkstick #joaosousaphotos #photojournalism #fujifilm #fujifilm_global #fujifilmxpt
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