‘They Called Me ‘Slave’: Beirut Blast Exposes Migrant Workers’ Plight in Mideast

‘They Called Me ‘Slave’: Beirut Blast Exposes Migrant Workers’ Plight in Mideast

BEIRUT—On a May morning last year, Rosemary Nyambura fled the Lebanese household where she had worked as a maid for nearly a year, leaving behind her passport, which her employer had confiscated. But the 25-year-old Kenyan’s departure from one household—where she said she had suffered abuse—led to another traumatic chapter as a domestic worker in … Read more