Basma Alawee

Alawee

Baghdad-born Basma is the Florida delegate for the Refugee Congress and a State Refugee Organiser with the Florida Immigrant Coalition. A former engineer in Iraq's oil ministry, Basma came to the US as a refugee in 2010.

Mobilising the refugee vote in Florida

Comment: I am voting to make sure the road is paved for my daughters and for other refugees, writes Basma Alawee, a refugee organiser in the swing state of Florida.

27 October, 2020