# Rebel populism, Vol. 1

By **Philip Proudfoot**

- ISBN-13: 9781526198082
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 232
- Published: 23 Jun 2026
- Categories: History, Refugees, Foreign workers, Protest movements

## About this book

Workers from the Syrian diaspora have maintained a presence in Lebanon for decades, building multimillion-dollar apartment complexes, toiling for backbreaking hours in grocery stores. From the mid-2000s, liberalising reforms saw accelerating levels of poverty among workers, often paid as low as $20 per day. Instead of

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