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Podcast: Smart Talk
Episode: Former Tampa refugee Abbas Nazari at Word Christchurch 2021
Description: In 2001, the Norwegian freighter Tampa - crammed with more than 400 asylum-seekers rescued from a sinking fishing boat - was turned away from Australia. Abbas Nazari, aged seven, was onboard. In 2001, the Norwegian freighter Tampa - crammed with more than 400 asylum-seekers who'd been rescued from a sinking fishing boat - was turned away from Australia.A seven-year-old boy Afghan boy named Abbas Nazari, who was on board with his family, eventually found a home in Christchurch.In 2019, Abbas went to Georgetown University in Washington DC on a Fulbright scholarship and eventually graduated with a...