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Dance: When I Saw the Sea

Culture · Tuesday, November 17 · 20:00 · Évreux

Boulevard de Normandie, Le Cadran

The performance is in Arabic, Amharic, and English, with subtitles in French and English. Kafala is a customary adoption-like process popular in the Middle East, which allows unscrupulous employers to have access to domestic labor that is migrant, vulnerable and subjected to modern slavery. As a result, women from Kenya or Ethiopia, the Philippines or Sri Lanka are deprived of their identity papers, then abducted and exploited. In Lebanon, amid war, some of them have been found on Beirut’s Corniche, abandoned, excluded…