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Caption: Lebanon: A Forgotten Nation How lack of Lebanese visibility in the United States negatively affects American perceptions of Lebanon
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Caption: On November 12, 2015, two ISIS suicide bombers detonated explosives in a suburb of Beirut, The capital of Lebanon, killing 43.
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Caption: The next day, the New York Times ran this story, below the fold, on its front page.
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Caption: Two days later, ISIS struck again - this time killing 130 Parisians in a series of coordinated attacks.
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Caption: This was the front page of The New York Times the next day.
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Caption: According to sophomore criminology major and son of Iranian immigrants Ali Kazemipour, this sort of preferential reporting pervaded U.S. Media coverage of the Paris and Beirut attacks.
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Caption: This type of institutional racism pervades the West. Georgetown University Christian-Muslim relations Professor Yvonne Haddad
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Caption: University of Maryland mechanical engineering major and Lebanese international student Woody Haddad says there are no Lebanese student groups on campus.
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Caption: Kazemipour, a member of the UMD Iranian Students' Foundation, considers it unfortunate that other Middle Eastern nationals do not have student organizations where they can meet people interested in their home country.
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Caption: Georgetown Professor Yvonne Haddad believes U.S. Media's lack in interest in Lebanon partially stems from perceptions that the Lebanese dislike America.
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Caption: A majority of Lebanese people have a favorable view of America, but these views are divided among religious lines Yvonne Haddad
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Caption: I just want people to know that we're also victims of terrorist attacks... that we're not all the same Woody Haddad