Caroline Moorehead

Caroline Moorehead is a biographer and journalist. She wrote a fortnightly openDemocracy column telling stories of refugees and asylum-seekers between May 2002 and December 2003.

In flight from Pakistan

M.L. is a chemist from Pakistan. He is in his late twenties and comes from a large and prosperous family who have always been close. He has a brother

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 22 May 2002

H. O.  an asylum seeker from Istanbul

I was taken, blindfolded, in a lift to what felt like the top of a very high building. I was made to walk round and round in circles for what

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 8 May 2002

The wilderness of exile: Z.G.

Z. was born not far from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, in 1957. She is a tall, straight-backed woman, but her handsome face, oval under her draped scarf, is as

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 24 Apr 2002

A.K.  a Kurd from south-east Turkey

The story of A.K.s life is the story of a man whose entire existence has been dictated by the fact that he was born a Kurd in a

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 7 Mar 2002

The price of the past

I was born in a small town in Northern Iran in September 1975, the third in a family of three children. Mohamed, the young man who is telling his story,

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 20 Feb 2002

The story of Aman B.

In the first weeks of the genocide in April and early May 1994, my father ordered us to stay in hiding in our house in the commune of Kigali. Aman

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 23 Jan 2002

Suspended in Cairo

No one knows how many asylum seekers there are in Cairo. It could be as many as a million of Cairos 16 million inhabitants. They come from the Horn

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 10 Jan 2002

The story of Alpha Q.

I was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, on April 14, 1981. My father was a trader in clothes. He came from the Fulah ethnic group. He was also

By Caroline Moorehead

/ 10 Jan 2002