(This school is NOT Mali or Amideast and has nothing to do with America.)

Last December the two foreign native english speaking teachers were both fired on the same day( one day before we were due to be paid, meaning the school gets two months - 30 hours a week - free teaching.)
No reason was given for the dismissals.

We were told that we would receive no money whatsoever for the last month ($800 each) that we had worked and that we should give them our passports so that we could get an exit visa. The exit visa was obtained and we were given a PHOTOCOPY of the exit visa. They held the passports. This was, presumably, an attempt at intimidation - the idea was that if we made trouble about the $1600 owed (for work done) then we would not get our passports back.

The school is run by one Areen Haddad - a very cunning liar, thief and cheat.