Basma Khalifa | Growing up in Northern Ireland, inside the real Saudi Arabia and getting kicked out of her birthplace

Basma Khalifa is a filmmaker, director and presenter. We talk about Basma’s childhood growing up in Northern Ireland as a person of colour, her return to her birthplace in Saudi Arabia in 2018 which was documented in a brilliant BBC Three documentary and eventually getting kicked out of Saudi and we also chat about Basma’s perseverance and the hard graft that has gone into her career to date.

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