Documentary Film Festival 2015. Maid in Lebanon is a documentary directed by Carol Mansour exploring the struggle of the domestic workers in Lebanon. In their own voices, the migrant workers tell their stories of rape, torture, physical and mental abuse. The documentary addresses the questions of why the workers migrate in the first place and why they return to the Middle East despite the suffering. Maid for Sale is a documentary directed by Dima Al-Joundi highlighting the employment and living conditions of domestic workers in Lebanon. Theater Shebaik Lebaik is a play written by migrant workers and migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and performed. Shouting Without A Listener is a play written, directed and produced by the creator of the film Beirut, Rahel Zegeye. In this play she investigates the lives of migrant workers in Lebanon exploring encounters with discrimination and exploitation but also love and life decisions. Visual art Beirut based multimedia journalist and filmmaker, Matthew Cassel produced a photography project named Unseen Lives: Migrant domestic workers in Lebanon in partnership with the KAFA (enough) Violence and Exploitation. The photographs depict the lives of women of Ethiopian, Filipino, Nigerian, Nepalese, Madagascan, and other nationalities who are working in Lebanon and domestic workers. As part of his photo project documenting the lives of foreign domestic workers, Cassel has also produced a selection of photographs of Miss Ethiopia in Lebanon, a beauty pageant organized by the Ethiopian community in Lebanon. The comic strip Zina, created by Zina Mufarrij, attempts to offer a humorous critique of Lebanese society and includes the character of a migrant domestic worker named Coussouma. Coussouma A La Plage depicts a domestic work we are unable to see beneath the luggage they are carrying. The character of Coussouma is described as a diligent employee, who has lived in Lebanon for three years and takes care of the household daily chores for her 'Madame'. Lebanese artist Tagreed Darghouth produced a piece entitled Fair & Lovely in 2010, a series of oil portraits of domestic maids. See also Migrant worker Economic migrant Migrant domestic workers Kafala system Migrant workers in the Gulf region Migrant workers in the United Arab Emirates References Labor in Lebanon Domestic workers in Lebanon Lebanon Expatriates in Lebanon