I have a startup which aims to grow ethical diamonds in a laboratory. I came from Japan to do my last two years of school in Armidale, at the same school where my mother had done an exchange 35 years earlier! Next, I got accepted into UNSW to study Material Science...
I was born in Port Moresby, as my father was an Agricultural Scientist who went over to work with the Papuan government when it was an Australian Trust Territory. Then, when I was 7, he founded an Agricultural College in Keravat and became the first Principal. Keravat...
My parents lost a baby in the Gulf War because the hospital was attacked. After that, they fled Iraq to Libya, where we lived a relatively peaceful life until 2011, when everything turned upside down. One day it was a protest, the next it was the Arab Spring, then the...
In 2006, I fled from Iran to Syria. After I arrived, I was interviewed by the UNHCR and by Australian Immigration, and accepted as a genuine refugee, as were others like me, who were from the persecuted Arab Ahwaz minority group. But after they approved us, we heard...
While I was doing my degree in Psychology in Singapore, I fell into depression for a year. It was a pretty tough time. I failed a couple of units and I started thinking, ‘God, my dream is over now.’ I ended up spending a lot of time playing video games – it was my way...
