Hurrah! The Observer’s coverage of the Michael Meets Musa event at the Royal Geographical Society was fantastic.
If your busy Sunday didn’t allow you to read the full two-page spread, please have a gander at the online version.
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Michael Palin’s hand of friendship gives asylum seekers a human face
Monday, November 23rd, 2009Posted by Esme Peach
Refugee Action’s volunteer Musa takes to the stage with Michael Palin for the interview of a lifetime
Friday, November 20th, 2009
Musa and Esme take to the stage with Michael Palin at the Royal Geographic Society
Since he applied for sanctuary in the UK on his birthday in January 2003, Musa Ibrahim has become all too accustomed to being interviewed. From his asylum interview and subsequent appeal hearings to his volunteering interview at Refugee Action and appearances on local radio, Musa has spent the past six years fielding questions posed by a whole host of British people.
Indeed as a volunteer with our Refugee Awareness Project in Bristol, talking to community groups about his experiences of being a refugee, he got pretty used to being grilled about why he fled Somalia by school children, youth workers and firefighters alike.
So when Michael Palin asked to interview him as part of a new series of talks at the Royal Geographical Society, he was more laid back than I was. (more…)
Posted by Esme Peach