Philip Proudfoot is a PhD candidate at the London School of Economic and a Visiting Research Associate at the American University of Beirut. His ethnographic research project charts the political and economic transformation undergone by a small group of Syrian migrant worker-refugees in Beirut.
“What do you think about these?” Haytham asks, holding up a pair of red skinny fit chinos he’d found poking out from a mountainous pile of unsorted jeans...