About Refugees, By Refugees

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…

Kadir Okatar

Kadir Okatar Kurdish Turkey “I wanted to be a very well-known Kurdish musician… This was my dream to perform freely in my own country, my own people, my own land,”…

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…

Garba Kalifa

Garba Kalifa Nigerian Nigeria “What’s good about being here—number one—the human rights,” says refugee Garba Kalifa (32). “You are free, everybody is equal. Nobody is above anybody.” It’s been more…

Fatma El Gala

…Madrid, where she works as a lawyer: “Having contact with [my family], having my own family, having my profession, to be able to exercise it freely and be who I…

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…