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‘You’re in a new world’: refugee actors share their journey on stage

A new play touring England uses beds to reflect on experiences of former unaccompanied minors

For most people, bed is a place of comfort, somewhere to recline and switch off. For others, it is a scene of displacement, a symbol of the precariousness of life.

For eight months, Syed Haleem Najibi moved from bed to bed. The now 23-year-old fled Afghanistan as an unaccompanied minor in 2012, making his way through Iran, Turkey, Greece, Italy and France, before finally arriving in the UK.

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