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Jamaloddin. 52 years old. Iranian refugee in Iraqi Kurdistan – For Jamal, the tents at the Samos Island hotspot are full of dreams: “These are the dreams of a fifty-year-old man, like me, or those of a child. Mine are bigger than my tiny little tent.” Jamal dreams of publishing all the books he was not allowed to publish in his country. He dreams of one day seeing his wife back in Iran or finding their children who have emigrated to Germany. In the meantime, he writes and reads poems to the doll who keeps him company in his tent. An Iranian Kurd, Jamal was forced to leave his country in 2005 to settle in Iraqi Kurdistan. In 2016, the political alliances between Kurdistan and Iran pushed him back onto the road. “I couldn’t even take two books with me. I closed the apartment I had rented and left with a small bag. . . . I miss my books the most.” | Hot spot Samos - Greece 2017
