"Born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Youssef Kanaan has been "an unwelcome guest" all his life – surviving, with no permanent home, at the mercy of others.
Like many of the 4 million Palestinians who lost their ancestral homes in Arab-Israel conflicts in 1948 and 1967, Kanaan is stateless, a peculiar situation that deprives him of basic rights in the land of his birth, Lebanon, and dooms him to a strange limbo in Canada.
A nurse by training, the 40-year-old Kanaan fled Muslim extremists at the now-infamous Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in 1993. After 14 years in Toronto, he is still fighting to find a home and end the vicious cycle of statelessness for his children, Taha, 15, and Omaya, 13."
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