rtist and architect Sofia Karim was born in 1970s Liverpool, in the North West of England, to Bangladeshi parents. Her parents – both doctors – relocated the family to Libya for work when Karim, the middle of three sisters, was an infant. They returned to the UK when she was seven years old. Karim describes her first experience of racism, at the hands of an English schoolteacher: ‘She tore up my artwork and frightened me so much that I wet my pants in front of the entire class… it was a total shock to my system, suddenly realizing
