A Refugee’s Story: ‘No One’s Family Is Perfect but Mine Is Perfect for Me’ – The New York Times

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A Refugee’s Story: ‘No One’s Family Is Perfect but Mine Is Perfect for Me’

In documenting his family members’ refugee experiences, Wesaam Al-Badry captured their character and ways of maneuvering through life.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/lens/refugee-iraq-family.html

Wesaam Al-Badry’s first and fondest memory of his father, Sattar, was visiting him in an Iraqi prison. Sattar had been imprisoned and tortured for being a pacifist who refused to fight in the Iran-Iraq war. There were at least 20 other prisoners in the same cell, Wesaam recalled where his father hugged him and held him in his lap.