HISTORICAL INHERITED CASES While the proportions of the two standard categories of statelessness in Lebanon are identical in Akkar and Tripoli, a closer look into the Maktoum El Qayd category reveals a major contrast, confirming the deep-rooted nature of statelessness in Akkar. • The overwhelming majority (85%) of stateless individuals in Akkar are from the Maktoum El Qayd (MeQ) category, compared to 9% from the Qayd El Dars (QeD) category. These results are in line with those from Tripoli. • But a closer look into the MeQ category reveals a major difference: in Tripoli 63% of MeQ are more recent cases of nonregistered descendants of Lebanese fathers, and only 22% are historical inherited cases. By contrast, a sizable minority of Akkar’s MeQ (38%) are hereditary cases, compared to 47% of nonregistered individuals. • While nonregistration remains the major cause of statelessness in both regions, these results confirm the historical, cross-generational, and hence more complicated, aspect of the phenomenon in Akkar. • Another interesting Akkari particularity: one in four nonregistered stateless individuals (26%) is born from a mixed marriage between a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother. This highlights the region’s strong inter-community ties, which are much older than the era of the Syrian conflict and the refugee influx. Fig 8. Stateless distribution by categories 47% 63% MeQ 85% 38% 22% QeD 9% 5% 7% Tripoli Other 8% Akkar QeD Inherited Non-registered “Other” would refer to fringe cases such as loss of identification documents, or uncooperative administrations. © 2021 Siren Associates. All Rights Reserved.