00:00This neighborhood has many apartments for rent, but whether you get one depends on what you're called,
00:05because your name reveals your sectarian background, and that has become more important than ever.
00:12If the name isn't enough to identify you, wearing a hijab will do the job.
00:19Im Hassan lost her house in the southern suburbs of Beirut in an Israeli attack.
00:23She's having a hard time finding somewhere to rent.
00:30My family and I are in a temporary refugee center, but I'm looking for an apartment to rent.
00:35It's been very difficult because some of my family wear the hijab.
00:38Everyone refused to rent to us. I found a suitable place in Mansourie,
00:43but when they saw members of my family wearing the hijab, they terminated the contract.
00:47We still don't have anywhere to go.
00:52Neighborhoods have long been divided along complicated sectarian lines.
00:57The mixing up caused by people leaving Hezbollah-linked areas
01:00and needing other places to stay have made those divisions wider.
01:07I never imagined that this would happen in Lebanon.
01:10People would refuse us because of the hijab.
01:14It was quite shocking, or rather disappointing.
01:19Many people, including friends, did not offer me their houses for rent.
01:23That was very surprising to me.
01:27The destruction in many Shia towns is complete,
01:30and the Israeli military remains active in the southern border area
01:34even after the November 27 ceasefire.
01:37This leaves many people from those areas stuck in other parts of the country.
01:44This is one of Beirut's most liberal and diverse neighborhoods.
01:48It became a magnet destination for refugees at the height of the dislocation.
01:52Initially, they were welcomed, but soon, a cultural clash between newcomers and locals
01:58made things difficult for people who'd lived there for a long time, like Abood.
02:06The people who came here brought with them their habits and traditions and mentality.
02:13They have issues accepting people like me.
02:17To them, I look wrong.
02:18They think a man shouldn't look like this.
02:24It feels like a death wave came to the neighborhood and killed everything.
02:28Even our spirit feels like it's died.
02:32I have no appetite to go out, not even to the supermarket.
02:36I'd rather order deliveries just to avoid meeting these people.
02:41All I feel now is that I want to leave.
02:43All I feel now is that I want to leave.
02:47Most people can't leave.
02:49They have to stay where they are and somehow pay the rent.
02:53The chaos and destruction means greater demand, and that has pushed up prices.
02:58That's hurting everyone doing little to pull Lebanon's fractured society together.
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