Lebanese diasporas around the world
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Zambo Festival in Tripoli which coincides with the celebration of Christian Easter in Tripoli, Lebanon.
This festival, of Brazilian origin, was imported from Brazil where the largest Lebanese expatriate community lives.
AFP / Ibrahim Chalhoub
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In Brazil, the despair of the Lebanese-Brazilians, where the largest Lebanese diaspora in the world lives.
In Senegal, the Lebanese community has tens of thousands of people, some of whom have lived there for two, three or four generations.
For several decades, Canada has been an important hub for the Lebanese, since approximately 250,000 citizens or descendants of this country live there.
There are between 35,000 and 75,000 Lebanese living in Nigeria.
Some families have been established in the country since the beginning of the 20th century, others are more recent immigrants, economic exiles to feed their families back home.
Brazil
Senegal
Canada
Nigeria