About Refugees, By Refugees

Yasaman Rezaei

…attached to my soil,” she says, explaining that she left Iran with great reluctance. “I most of the times don’t see myself as an immigrant. I have come here to…

Omair Ulhaq

free… It’s not that easy [to wait] more than two decades of your life, of your prime time, of your youth.” Omair could not see his parents for 12 years,…

A Azarnoosh

…I have become spiritless.” Prior to this situation, Azarnoosh could move freely on an international scale: “I am an educated person from an educated family. I was an officer on…

Leila Saadati

Leila Saadati Iranian Iran “My dream is that Iranians live in freedom and peace”, says Leila Saadati (42), a journalist originally from Iran. When the authorities started arresting her colleagues…

Mirqedir Mirzat

…country of freedom.” He says of his homeland “What leaks out is just 1% of the truth so we can’t imagine what’s going on… our hearts can’t bear it anymore.”…

Miguel Ángel Estrella

…off and then be killed, he says “prayer provided company and certainty,” through the terror of losing his life and livelihood. Petitioned to provide him with a piano, his captors…

Zol

…to four years pass very hard,” she says. But “I was a hopeful person, and never lost my hope.” Before leaving Iran, Zol’s dream “was to become free and go…

Mr Green

…his home country due to lack of “freedom of life” and discrimination against the LGBTQ community: “It is forbidden from law, and also it’s not acceptable socially.” To get to…

Javier

free press. “I feel safe” in Hamburg, he says, but life has been difficult: “I didn’t know anybody. I didn’t have friends, I didn’t have family. I didn’t speak the…