Adel was born in and grew up in Baghdad to an Iraqi mother and father who was a refugee from Palestine. In this episode Adel talks about his formative experiences growing up in Baghdad and then at school in Birmingham and the things that influenced his later life.
Adel studied Agronomy at Baghdad University and after making his way illicitly across the border to Jordan during the first Gulf War, he was eventually able to use this degree to gain a skilled visa to Australia. Starting a new life In Australia wasn't always easy, but Adel would eventually succeed in gaining a Ph.d in Food Science and is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Tasmania.
He also describes his experience of going to Palestine, and searching for his father's home village, which had been erased years before by Israeli settlers, and his ongoing advocacy for justice for the Palestinian people.
It's a story with both dark and light moments, and just a little romance and even former AFL football coach and broadcaster comes into the story..
Music : "Ibn Al-Noor" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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