Grappling With Identity: Why I Consider Myself a 1.25-Generation Immigrant
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4 min readMar 7, 2022
Right out of college, I left my parents’ home in Cairo, Egypt, and moved to Europe, marking the start of my independent life as an adult. I lived in Austria for a year, in Germany for six, and then finally moved to London where I’ve been living for the past six years.