Citation:
Hassan Al Kontar. (2019, June 23). [@Kontar81]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/Kontar81/status/1142818888326848512
Summary:
The tweet shows a picture of pure discrimination against Syrians in Lebanon regarding burial in Lebanon.
Analysis:
This tweet is posted by a Syrian refugee Hasan Kontar with 16k followers on Twitter. He is famous as “the man from the airport” after spending months living in the Kuala Lumpur International airport. He now promises to shed lights on the discrimination faced by Syrian refugees around the world. This tweet is now credible based on his past, identity, and the goal he wants to achieve. He posted a picture of a big poster in front of a graveyard in Lebanon in an Arabic language, translating it literally in English. This shows that he wants to let non-Arabic speakers to know about this discriminative act against dead Syrian refugees. He also shows that Syrian refugees in Lebanon do not face discrimination when they are alive, but when they are also dead. Moreover, he sarcastically congratulated them in unlocking a new level of hatred. This had been done to capture the readers audience on how serious the problem is and how it is evolving instead of being tackled.
Hassan Al Kontar. (2019, June 23). [@Kontar81]. Twitter. https://twitter.com/Kontar81/status/1142818888326848512
Summary:
The tweet shows a picture of pure discrimination against Syrians in Lebanon regarding burial in Lebanon.
Analysis:
This tweet is posted by a Syrian refugee Hasan Kontar with 16k followers on Twitter. He is famous as “the man from the airport” after spending months living in the Kuala Lumpur International airport. He now promises to shed lights on the discrimination faced by Syrian refugees around the world. This tweet is now credible based on his past, identity, and the goal he wants to achieve. He posted a picture of a big poster in front of a graveyard in Lebanon in an Arabic language, translating it literally in English. This shows that he wants to let non-Arabic speakers to know about this discriminative act against dead Syrian refugees. He also shows that Syrian refugees in Lebanon do not face discrimination when they are alive, but when they are also dead. Moreover, he sarcastically congratulated them in unlocking a new level of hatred. This had been done to capture the readers audience on how serious the problem is and how it is evolving instead of being tackled.
Citation:
M.R. (2020, December 30). Lebanon’s racism is fanning the flames of violence towards Syrian refugees. Al Arabiya English. https://english.alarabiya.net/views/news/middle-east/2020/12/30/Lebanon-s-racism-is-fanning-the-flames-of-violence-towards-Syrian-refugees-
Summary:
This article of a governmental website discusses the political and social acts of discrimination that Syrians in Lebanon are facing. It criticizes how Lebanese are taking in account the previous acts they faced from Syrians as an excuse for discrimination. It also elaborates on how President of Lebanon and the former minister of foreign affairs are blaming them for the Lebanese crisis.
Analysis:
The article is published by Al Arabiya News, a famous international Arabic news, and written by Makram Rabah. This shows how much this topic is essential to discuss and not worth ignoring. This increases the credibility of the article.
The article started by mentioning a tragic incident, where the camps were intentionally set on fire in Christmas by a Lebanese youths to show the real-life examples of the discriminative violence Syrian refugees are facing. He also used this story at the beginning for the audience to have sympathy towards the topic and Syrian refugees. However, Rabah states the previous violent acts of the Syrians toward Lebanese citizens, like the killing of Joseph Tawk by a Syrian refugee in Bcharre. This real-life incident increased the hatred towards the Syrians demanding them to forcefully leave the country as if they are a threat to this country. The writer tried to connect the reasons behind the discrimination faced by Syrians by a one real-life tragic murder of a national Lebanese. The writer here relied heavily on real-life examples to strengthen the article’s credibility and to grow the emotions of the readers towards this topic.
The article heavily depends on statistics to achieve credibility, where it states that there are 1.5 million Syrian refugees that are threatened by violence and 200 families are forced to take refuge somewhere else.
The purpose of this article is to inform and not persuade, despite of the sensitive nature of this article to elaborate on the violent acts faced by Syrian refugees based on Lebanon every day. This is shown through some words like “fearmongering foil” instead of describing the acts of President Michael Aoun and former minister of Foreign Affairs to be discriminative, hurtful, and unfair for the Syrians. However, he also states the people in government like the Prime Minister Al Hariri show their support towards the Syrians. Therefore, the writer is trying to include two opposing opinions inside the government, to result in acknowledging the audience not all people in the government are discriminative.
M.R. (2020, December 30). Lebanon’s racism is fanning the flames of violence towards Syrian refugees. Al Arabiya English. https://english.alarabiya.net/views/news/middle-east/2020/12/30/Lebanon-s-racism-is-fanning-the-flames-of-violence-towards-Syrian-refugees-
Summary:
This article of a governmental website discusses the political and social acts of discrimination that Syrians in Lebanon are facing. It criticizes how Lebanese are taking in account the previous acts they faced from Syrians as an excuse for discrimination. It also elaborates on how President of Lebanon and the former minister of foreign affairs are blaming them for the Lebanese crisis.
Analysis:
The article is published by Al Arabiya News, a famous international Arabic news, and written by Makram Rabah. This shows how much this topic is essential to discuss and not worth ignoring. This increases the credibility of the article.
The article started by mentioning a tragic incident, where the camps were intentionally set on fire in Christmas by a Lebanese youths to show the real-life examples of the discriminative violence Syrian refugees are facing. He also used this story at the beginning for the audience to have sympathy towards the topic and Syrian refugees. However, Rabah states the previous violent acts of the Syrians toward Lebanese citizens, like the killing of Joseph Tawk by a Syrian refugee in Bcharre. This real-life incident increased the hatred towards the Syrians demanding them to forcefully leave the country as if they are a threat to this country. The writer tried to connect the reasons behind the discrimination faced by Syrians by a one real-life tragic murder of a national Lebanese. The writer here relied heavily on real-life examples to strengthen the article’s credibility and to grow the emotions of the readers towards this topic.
The article heavily depends on statistics to achieve credibility, where it states that there are 1.5 million Syrian refugees that are threatened by violence and 200 families are forced to take refuge somewhere else.
The purpose of this article is to inform and not persuade, despite of the sensitive nature of this article to elaborate on the violent acts faced by Syrian refugees based on Lebanon every day. This is shown through some words like “fearmongering foil” instead of describing the acts of President Michael Aoun and former minister of Foreign Affairs to be discriminative, hurtful, and unfair for the Syrians. However, he also states the people in government like the Prime Minister Al Hariri show their support towards the Syrians. Therefore, the writer is trying to include two opposing opinions inside the government, to result in acknowledging the audience not all people in the government are discriminative.
Citation:
Lawley, C. (2020, August 26). Beirut: An explosion that exposed the discrimination against Syrians. TRT World. https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/beirut-an-explosion-that-exposed-the-discrimination-against-syrians-39217
Summary:
This news article explains how Beirut’s explosion uncovered the discrimination against Lebanese Syrians. It also discusses how Syrians are counted as lower human beings than Lebanese people, along with forcing them to fake their identity. Moreover, it elaborates on how Lebanese citizens are racist, and not only the heads of different sectors.
Analysis:
The news/opinion article is credible since it is written by Charles Lawley, the head of communications and advocacy at the UK-based charity, Syria Relief. This explains a lot that the writer knows what he is presenting in his article. Even though this news paper has a touch of opinion from the writer, it is trust-worthy, and we can rely on his argument.
This article started by an incident that happened right after Beirut’s explosion. This included the arrest of Syrian employees while cleaning the damage and broken glass. The writer started right away with a real-life example of a discriminative act against the Syrians to put the readers in the atmosphere and the shock to continue reading. The writer also inserted a video for this tragic incident to be more credible.
He also used statics to increase the article’s credibility, “43 of the 180 people killed by the blast on August 4, almost a quarter, were Syrians”. He elaborated that this statics is discriminative as they counted the Syrians alone and not a part of Lebanese people. To support this, Faryal, a Syrian refugee narrated this incident. This makes the article more reliable and will have people believe in this to be a catastrophic problem to be tackled.
He also adds another real story about a family having their house damaged by Beirut’s explosion, but they must pay for every damage in their rental house even though the humanitarian organizations must cover these expenses. The writer adds a story of a Syrian volunteer helping in Beirut’s explosion on how she worked hard to change her accent, just to get accepted and avoid bullying. She also did that to find a job in a restaurant, since clients do not feel comfortable around Syrian waiters and waitresses. The writer based his news article on real-life of one of their volunteers.
The writer based his news article on social and political discrimination they faced right after Beirut’s explosion. This shows how big the problem of discrimination against Syrians is.
Lawley, C. (2020, August 26). Beirut: An explosion that exposed the discrimination against Syrians. TRT World. https://www.trtworld.com/opinion/beirut-an-explosion-that-exposed-the-discrimination-against-syrians-39217
Summary:
This news article explains how Beirut’s explosion uncovered the discrimination against Lebanese Syrians. It also discusses how Syrians are counted as lower human beings than Lebanese people, along with forcing them to fake their identity. Moreover, it elaborates on how Lebanese citizens are racist, and not only the heads of different sectors.
Analysis:
The news/opinion article is credible since it is written by Charles Lawley, the head of communications and advocacy at the UK-based charity, Syria Relief. This explains a lot that the writer knows what he is presenting in his article. Even though this news paper has a touch of opinion from the writer, it is trust-worthy, and we can rely on his argument.
This article started by an incident that happened right after Beirut’s explosion. This included the arrest of Syrian employees while cleaning the damage and broken glass. The writer started right away with a real-life example of a discriminative act against the Syrians to put the readers in the atmosphere and the shock to continue reading. The writer also inserted a video for this tragic incident to be more credible.
He also used statics to increase the article’s credibility, “43 of the 180 people killed by the blast on August 4, almost a quarter, were Syrians”. He elaborated that this statics is discriminative as they counted the Syrians alone and not a part of Lebanese people. To support this, Faryal, a Syrian refugee narrated this incident. This makes the article more reliable and will have people believe in this to be a catastrophic problem to be tackled.
He also adds another real story about a family having their house damaged by Beirut’s explosion, but they must pay for every damage in their rental house even though the humanitarian organizations must cover these expenses. The writer adds a story of a Syrian volunteer helping in Beirut’s explosion on how she worked hard to change her accent, just to get accepted and avoid bullying. She also did that to find a job in a restaurant, since clients do not feel comfortable around Syrian waiters and waitresses. The writer based his news article on real-life of one of their volunteers.
The writer based his news article on social and political discrimination they faced right after Beirut’s explosion. This shows how big the problem of discrimination against Syrians is.