Exiled Tunisian Mohamed Ali Aguerbi on LGBTQ+ asylum laws: ‘Politicians think of the masses and forget about minorities’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Mohamed Ali ‘Dali’ Aguerbi (Image: Attitude/Markus Bidaux)

“I didn’t have a lot of hope before,” says Mohamed Ali Aguerbi, known to his friends as Dali. “Living in Malta gave me that. It gave me security and a glimpse of the future.”

That glimmer of light was hard-won. Born in Tunisia, Aguerbi, one of the winners at this year’s PEUGEOT Attitude PRIDE Awards Europe 2025, supported by British Airways, was the youngest of four in a working-class family. A creative child, he grew up volunteering with the Red Cross, joining youth organisations, and entertaining children as a clown and magician. Later, he trained in theatre and arts production, beginning a career as an artist. But by his teens, another reality was quietly unfolding. “I never saw my sexuality as something wrong,”

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