Sexism in Lebanon

""Our laws are unfair and completely disregard women," said Soueidan, sitting in her modest living room in a working class neighborhood of Beirut and drawing nervously on a cigarette. Under legislation adopted in 1925, 18 years before Lebanon's independence from France, only Lebanese men can get citizenship for their spouses and offspring. The measure often leads to surreal situations in which children born and raised in Lebanon to a foreign father face costly legal and social difficulties and in many instances end up rejected by the only country they know."" (thanks Nicholas)