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Every Sunday morning Beirut airport is full of Lebanese workers. they are flying two to three hours to Persian Gulf countries where salaries are much be higher to begin their work week
l spends most of my time on the plane said Salim Tayah sales manager for the middle east and Africa for Fujifilm's medical division based in Dubai. Tayah says he never spends more than 10 days away from his family In Lebanon but the travel can make you very tired.
At rest it's enjoyable seeing new cultures says Tayah who can speak French Arabic and English and travels up to 40 countries in the region but sometimes l wakes up in a hotel .and I don't know what country l m in
Tayah is one of many Lebanese who take part in a ritual that started in the 1970s with the rise of the oil economies in the Persian Gulf the trend of commuting from Lebanon grew over the past years cheap airlines meet the demand to places like Dubai Bahrain and Kuwait these cities are business and financial hubs with companies that seek expatriate talent approximately 300,000 Lebanese in the gulf but have their work.