When she got to the American University of Beirut (AUB), where she was heading to take up a Mastercard Foundation scholarship, she asked other students about the incident and was told this was a symptom of how domestic workers are treated in Lebanon.
At the airport domestic workers are told to line up and wait for their sponsor to pick them up. By this stage they have already signed a contract to work for the sponsor. But for many of them, once they hand their passport to the sponsor, their human rights quickly seem to evaporate.