Post by Somerville College

Somerville has previously marked Refugee Week with celebrations, lectures and film screenings. This year, something new is joining the mix, as a Somervillian artist Julia Hall (1992, Modern History), debuts a new piece celebrating refugee women at the Ashmolean. The piece, titled, ‘No One Has an Umbrella Above Their Head’, shares the story of Nuha Abdo, a sociologist from Syria, who arrived in Oxford in 2016, and set up the social enterprise Damascus Rose Kitchen.