About Refugees, By Refugees

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…

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…of experience made me feel my survival so I will keep going anyway. If not for me, for my beloved ones.” Now working as a freelancer, he says one of…

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,”…

Anas Kamal

…to face. Explaining his experience as a gay man in Syria, where he was born, Anas says, “You are comfortable in so many ways. But comfort does not mean that…

Yassin Jalloh

…his father discovered he was gay, he knew he was in danger. “I have to leave everything behind: My life, my childhood, everything.” While crossing “nine or ten” countries to…

Mohammad Yamani

Mohammad Yamani Yemeni Yemen “My dream was to start a new life,” says Mohammad Yamani (pseud, 35) reflecting on his decision to leave Yemen. “I left my country because of…

Niki

…describing why she left Azerbaijan seven years ago to seek a new home in Europe. “It was a very repressive society… And that eventually caused a rift in me, a…