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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY RITA DAOU Lebanese-Armenian Hripsimeh Arkanian, who married a Palestinian, points at pictures of her children and grandchildren during an interview with AFP at her home in Beirut's Dikwaneh suburb on March 3, 2010. Under legislation adopted in 1925, 18 years before Lebanon's independence from France, only Lebanese men can get citizenship for their spouses and offspring. The measure often leads to surreal situations in which children born and raised in Lebanon to a foreign father face costly legal and social difficulties and in many instances end up rejected by the only country they know. AFP PHOTO/ANWAR AMRO (Photo credit should read ANWAR AMRO/AFP via Getty Images)