In these visual studies using photoshop, I try to examine a personal dimension of displacement and exile. by looking at my own experiences, where as far as I remember, I have had a constant feeling of rejection and expulsion within the geographical and political existence. living in constant conflicts, wars, and in the state of fear, since i was about 5 years old, accumulated questions in my mind have been waiting for a logical explaniation. With the lens of my own story I am trying to look at the issue on the global and historical level in order to understand the phenomenon in its all dimensions.

By Jasim Ghafur

As one of the participants at the protest, I wanted to record and make this video in respond to my overwhelming feelings of rejections and not being accepted by those whom blindly direct their racist attacks and blame on people who escaped and sought protection.

I was anxious to attend the protest as some of my friends were worried that I might get attacked or hurt by EDL supporters, but I wanted to take part and I thought that it is not us should be afraid to defend the secular and progressive believes, but people who are attacking those progressive and human values should be anxious and worried to publicly protesting and spreading hatred against none white british people.

eventually and by about 2 pm on that day, our number increased and I estimated the crowed about 1000 people and that was a good turnout, later on I realized that there has been other groups confronting the main crowd of EDL. the protest aimed to not let the EDL to march in the city of Nottingham as they planned and succefully the EDL could not appear in the main parts of the town and they were stopped around the train station. Later I was told that when our protest ended at about 5.30 pm, then some of the remaining people of EDL walked around city centre chanting their anti Muslim and anti immigrants slogans.