Disabled Iranian woman seeks new opportunities in the West
Posted November 21, 2018 2:01 am.
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BOSILEGRAD, Serbia — Mahana Jami, whose legs were paralyzed by childhood polio, is pursuing her goal of life in a free country somewhere in the West where her disability is recognized and accommodated — and she has the chance to scale the world’s tallest towers using only her arms.
For now, the 34-year-old Iranian is in a small, government-run centre in Bosilegrad, a remote mountain town in southeastern Serbia, on the border with Bulgaria, along with her husband and adopted son.
“I am not a war refugee. I am not a Syrian or Iraqi,” Jami acknowledges. “But the war I had to fight in Iran to make myself recognized was harder than any (other) war. I want to go from here to a country where I am understood.”
The Associated Press
