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.
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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,
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