BEIRUT (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Since arriving in Lebanon, Sudanese migrant worker Abdallah Afandi has been turned away from beach resorts, mistaken for a cleaner and prevented from renting an apartment - all because of the color of his skin.
"I want to use my voice so that people in Lebanon understand where I come from, my culture, music, food - so they will look beyond what I do for a living, and the color of my skin," he said.
The show - whose name "Msh gharib" means "not foreign" in Arabic - has been in the works since 2017 and was created by the Anti-Racism Movement, a local non-government organization, with the help of migrants from the community center it runs.
"The title of the show really communicates its purpose - migrants are not 'the other'. Their voices and stories shouldn't be 'foreign' to Lebanese," said Laure Makarem, spokeswoman for the center.