Nationality and Cases of Statelessness in the Middle East and North Africa children.195 It is a similar story in Lebanon where the stateless known as kayd al dars (nationality under study) or maktoum al kayd (unregistered) also find that the general practice is to consider these statuses as hereditary rather than to protect the next generation from statelessness. Only in a limited number of court rulings have children born to a kayd al dars or maktoum al kayd father won the right to Lebanese nationality on the ground that they were born in the state and have not acquired another nationality.196 Meanwhile, in both Syria and Lebanon, children of Palestinians are also excluded from benefiting under the safeguards on the grounds of preserving their Palestinian ‘nationality’. Similarly, countries such as Jordan, which have special provisions that allow for the acquisition of the nationality of the mother if the father is stateless frequently do not implement this and children of Palestinian fathers, in particular, are excluded. In Iraq, the apparent internal inconsistency in the country’s nationality law has created problems in its implementation. Article 3 of the law clearly indicates 195 - See for the ramifications in terms of the growth of the stateless population in Syria over time, KurdWatch, ‘Stateless Kurds in Syria: Illegal invaders or victims of a nationalistic policy?’ March 2010. access at http://www.kurdwatch.org/ pdf/kurdwatch_staatenlose_en.pdf. 196 - Frontiers Ruwad Association, Invisible Citizens: Humiliation and a life in the shadows. A legal and policy study on statelessness in Lebanon, 2011, from page 59. 148