Fareid Atta

I spent eight months in Samos, Greece, in 2020, where I worked for an NGO by the refugee camp as an Arabic interpreter and as a freelance journalist. Seeing the disparity between my lived experience of the refugee crisis in Greece and its depiction in western media inspired a lifelong interest in the humanitarian affairs of the region and migration issues. I was also in awe of the refugees I met there and their talents and resilience so I decided to make a short-documentary about them.

I'm British born and raised, read English Literature for my undergraduate studies and graduated from University of Edinburgh in 2019 with a Master's degree in Middle Eastern Studies with Arabic.

After volunteering for the NGO Med’Equali Team in 2020, I returned to the UK where I worked for a think tank, and I am currently working as a journalist for Cambridge News.