Euphemistically, some say there are upwards of one million Syrians in Lebanon – the majority of them under 30. These Syrian “youth” (although rarely thought of in these terms) are almost exclusively male and make up 40% of the workforce in Lebanon (Chalcraft 2008). They come to construct, repair, and clean, but often learn the art of the “hustle” (Chernoff 2003). This paper will ethnographically explore the lives of Syrian youth in Lebanon from the standpoint of their sexual subjectivities while conceptualizing the negotiations of manhood while in Beirut. This paper, emerging from years of research, hopes to address the meanings surrounding “coming of age” in Beirut. Many boys arrive, as a rite of passage, when they are 15 or 16 years old spending a few months every year. Others arrive and spend nearly half of their youths in Lebanon, establishing more than a “migrant’s” life here. These migrations allow for the forging of new sexual boundaries, which vary from: paid sexual relationships, companionate “marriage”, male sexwork, and same-sex relationships. Yet an overshadowing theme remains, namely, these men come to Lebanon in order to garner wages to establish their lives back “home” in Syria. Through working they earn the trappings of an appropriate manhood, provide for their families, and save for their own marriages -- yet how does coming of age in Beirut affect the goals with which they arrive? Narratives of sexual corruption, drug addition, and prostitution abound among the men as they strive to forge their futures. What becomes compelling are how “presentations of self” (Goffman 1956) are managed and how they view their own lives changing having spent time in Lebanon as they reach maturity. How is their migration spurred by a desire for marriage, family, and the creation/attainment of what it means for each of these individuals to become a successful “man?” How do these conceptions change as they juggle jobs, spend years abroad, and negotiate living without family (or exclusively with extended male relatives)? The majority of the fieldwork has been carried out in Naba’a, Dowra and Bourj Hammoud over the last 4 years. This paper hopes, in short, to address an undertheorized, underdiscussed demographic that speaks to contemporary masculinity/sexual negotiations in the Middle East and also hopes to reconceptualize Syrian “youth” who serve this country.