Giving voice to the powerless

“I have my script... and... actors ready. But I do not have any finances yet...”— Saleh Sepas.wants ordinary folk to know the issues facing displaced people far from their home countries, in his play about refugees by refugees.In Search of Identity

The play is about a refugee child bride with a baby girl who is abandoned by her husband for not giving him a son. Homeless and forced to fend for herself and her child, her life becomes intertwined with other refugees. He adds that he wants to remind refugees to learn to work together and support each other, even if they are from different countries.

He also wants to dispel the notion by some people that certain countries the refugees had fled from are now safe for them to return home. “We are not encouraged to study the arts in Afghanistan,” he says. “Out of a population of 30 million, there were only 30 students in the arts faculty.”He says everyone he knew preferred to do engineering, law, medicine, or political science, and they were trying to discourage him from taking the arts. But he stuck to his guns.

Though he was unable to read or write, his father encouraged reading and critical thinking, and Saleh grew up in a household surrounded by all kinds of books.

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