The Illegal Journeys: From East to West

As a child Ali was raised in Kabul which was often the target for attacks by various warring factions in Afghanistan. At the age of four he and his family survived a direct hit to the house in which they were sheltering, during shelling by the Taliban.

At the age of eleven he had to go to work in the market of Mazar-e-Sharif city to prevent his mother and himself from starving to death.

His early troubled experiences equipped him with the strength of character to launch himself into the w...