There's not too many countries the Filipinos don't go to work in. With high unemployment rate and nearly half living below poverty - even degreed ones will do specialized labor making more than they would at home. Smart and hardworking from what I have seen here and there.
In this case, though, is it proximity or relatively lower cost of travel to the M.E. than for the South Americans, as an example - or why not Indians or Pakistani?
And would there be a like number of Filipinos in say, Dubai, for example? Just trying to "get" the Filipino-Lebanese connection.