Episode 104 - Emmanuel Samano is a British Assyrian who moved to London, England, from Iraq, in 1972. Born and raised in Kirkuk, he later moved to Baghdad, where he worked as an actor on theradio and the screen for the Iraqi Media Corporation. After the Ba’ath regime tried to pressurehim to join their party several times, he fled to London, where he eventually became anInterpreter for the United Kingdom Home Office, interpreting for many Assyrian refugees upontheir entry and application for residence in the UK.

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