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Refugee Week, ‘No more running a mother and daughter story’

Widyan Al-Ubudy and her mother at the opening of the Faith, fashion, fusion exhibition.

Widyan Al-Ubudy and her mother at the opening of the Faith, fashion, fusion exhibition.

To recognise National Refugee Week, we invited Widyan Al-Ubudy, an up-and-coming journalist and media personality to write a post for the Museum about her personal experiences with refugees. Widyan, 20, originally from Iraq, was born in a refugee camp in Saudi Arabia after her family escaped Saddam Hussein’s regime in the early 1990s. Continue reading ‘Refugee Week, ‘No more running a mother and daughter story’’