What does a 'Leb' look like?
- Written by Sherene Idriss, Research associate, Western Sydney University
The term 'Leb' embodies hyper-masculinity on the street. Generic image from Shutterstock.com
In 2012, I was interviewing a young man, Hamid*, as part of my research on the creative vocational aspirations of Lebanese-Australian young men. I asked him whether he had anything else to add, the usual courtesy given by researchers to interviewees. He...