Iranian Kazem Ariaiwand cleans ice from the windows of his truck in Longyearbyen, Norway.

“The only way to be independent was something that had something to do with the tourists. We have six, nearly seven, months with tourists in town”

When Kazem Ariaiwand fled Iran to seek asylum in the West he never imagined he would end up here, at the frozen edge of civilisation, hawking kebabs in a place where polar bears outnumber people. via The Age