Yousef: ‘We were lucky to be offered refugee resettlement in the UK’
Yousef and his family fled the war in Syria in 2011. Speaking no English, they arrived in Birmingham in 2017, where his youngest daughter Fatimah received essential medical treatment. Yousef set up a thriving business selling delicious Syrian fast food like falafel and shawarma from a food truck in the Bull Ring Market – until the pandemic struck. Now he has established a new catering business named SHOF, after his children’s initials, Shams, Omran and Fatimah www.shof.uk
