© Sarah Malian 2009
Raghad’s mother, Ahin, 33, finds a quiet moment to read her battered copy of the Qu’ran. She says one of her greatest problems is the sense of isolation stemming from ten years of living on the British bases with no access to a wider community, either British or Greek. ‘I have forgotten about the family I left behind in Iraq because we have problems of our own now,’ she says. ‘All day I tear myself up thinking my children spent two years in prison as babies. Last year when we demonstrated on the street for five months, they were imprisoned again. I have to think of their future… it’s too late for me. This is their home now, not Iraq…’
