SPOTLIGHT SELMA DABBAGH
Jun 08, 2021
3 minutes
Words: Rahila Gupta
Photo: Susannah Baker Smith
Half-Palestinian, half-English, born in Scotland, Selma Dabbagh’s life trajectory has taken her through eight countries; ‘places disappearing behind me’ she says, movingly, because she cannot return to many of them.
It makes her thankful for the solid ground of London where she has now settled – albeit a London much damaged by Brexit. She cannot return to Palestine, where she worked as a human rights lawyer, because Israel will not give her permission. She cannot return to
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