Former Geneticist and refugee Sahar Al-Faifi hopes to be the first Niqabi (face covering) Muslim woman selected as a Plaid Cymru Candidate for the Senedd for the 2021 elections. She describes her experience of working in a cancer diagnostic lab as a Geneticist and why she left it all to become a social justice campaigner. “I have never been interested in Party Politics” she said. “What motivated me to join Plaid Cymru is the anger and frustration I had for the Muslims and BME voices being missed in political discussions and discourse.” She further states how she wanted to directly change the political system for BME and Muslim community by running for the Senedd 2021 elections. “Traditionally Muslims and BME are labour supporters, especially if you go to the more highly populated Muslim areas like Butetown and Grangetown. She said. “A lot of Muslims vote Labour. They have never interacted with Plaid Cymru, I was the same.” However, things soon changed for Sahar when she w