Samir Hassaniyeh
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Samir Hassaniyeh is a Sierra Leonean civil right activist. He is currently the chairman and president of the Sierra Leonean-Lebanese
community in Sierra Leone. Hassaniyeh has spent most of his adult life fighting for Sierra Leonean-Lebanese right in Sierra Leone.
Sierra Leonean-Lebanese
-Migration history:Lebanese immigrants first came to West Africa in the mid-19th century when a silk-worm crisis struck their homeland, then part of the Ottoman Empire; the first Lebanese arrived in Sierra Leone in 1893. The first groups were Maronite Christians, but beginning in 1903, Shia Muslim...
community in Sierra Leone. Hassaniyeh has spent most of his adult life fighting for Sierra Leonean-Lebanese right in Sierra Leone.