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Asylum seekers could be our next wave of entrepreneurs

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imageSarmad Qassem, a 17-year-old Iraqi teenager, sells hamburgers in Sayydeh Zenab, near Damascus.Khaled Al Hariri/Reuters

In the last 12 months Maria Sorkhi started a photography business, Sima Mahboobifard began selling leather bags, the Dendo brothers - Rony, Luay and Duraed - began their photography and videography business, while Bassam Jabar set...

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