s short life; and when he laughs, it is often about things many people would find tragic. Asked about his experience as an immigrant in Italy, he chuckles. "At last I can't hear the mortars that I used to hear; at least there's that," he says. "But there's a total void, a feeling of total disorientation." Five and a half years ago, on 30 July 2008, Mukhtar arrived at the southernmost point of Italy...
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