15 Ali

Ali. 18 years old. Born in Kuwait, stateless | Ali’s cabin looks like a child’s bedroom. There is a puzzle hanging on the wall representing a beautiful European house. Ali was born in Kuwait into a Bedouin family. He explains that the Bedouins have no rights in that country, not even Kuwaiti nationality. Ali has always lived in a tent and this cabin is his first “home.” In Kuwait, his tribe traveled on camels. To reach Europe, Ali overcame his fear by taking a plane and a boat for the first time. He misses the desert and its sunsets. He recalls his childhood memories with nostalgia, when he kept sheep on horseback or made sandmen in the desert after the rain. Ali reveals that he has a dream: to work for a year or two in Britain so that he can send his sick mother on a pilgrimage to Mecca. | Calais, France. 2016