Emi Mahmoud

@EmiThePoet

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  1. Jun 20

    Today is World Refugee Day, but really, every day is world refugee day— last year alone 44,400 each day were driven from their homes, that's 16.2 million people, 1 every 2 seconds, 15 in the time it took read this tweet, 30 in the time it took me to write it

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  2. Jun 20

    I met Amina in Lesvos in 2016. She was standing despite losing everything—not once, but twice— when she left Syria, and again when the boat capsized with her husband in it. I can't stress enough the urgency, reach out, learn more, speak up

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  3. Mar 11

    To be a woman who fights for change, who champions good, who wants to make a difference is to face the system every single day and become uncomfortably familiar with its failures. Here’s to powerful women like Umm Jima, who fight every day for our right to exist

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  4. Mar 11

    It’s done—1000km in 30 days—I’m in awe that we walked it all. I am tired, but my heart is full, my soul ready for what's next. Until there's peace, we’ll carry this flag, until there's peace, we’ll carry each other. This is only the beginning

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  5. Feb 18

    In two weeks, we've completely challenged every conversation in Sudan. It is inspiring, terrifying, and absolutely necessary, and it all started through poetry. One voice can carry many, and I am counting on all of yours. So, please send us your

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  6. Feb 18

    When has freedom ever not been dangerous, when has peace ever not been necessary? We live in a world where peace is somehow controversial. I don't know where this walk will take us, but I do know that we're standing together like never before

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  7. Feb 18

    Today in AlRahad, I asked the people for their dreams for peace. One said "freedom". The official that gave me permission to rally said, "you are dangerous, Ms. Mahmoud. Your words are dangerous" I laughed. A smile masks the strength it takes to not respond to a threat like that.

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  8. Feb 18

    It started out as a simple idea & quickly grew into a movement. Civilian peace talks, a historic walk- the crowds are quickly growing. We began in Darfur and are walking across the desert for 30 days, the aim is peace and we've changed every conversation in Sudan

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  9. 17 Aug 2017
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    Fact: a burning bush without God is just a fire. Stand

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  10. 17 Aug 2017
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    Fact: my grandfather didn't want to leave home, so he died in a war zone

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  11. 17 Aug 2017
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    Fact: we never talked over breakfast because the warplanes would swallow our voices

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  12. 17 Aug 2017
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    as if there aren’t entire volumes full of factsheets about our genocides and now you want me to write one?

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  13. 17 Aug 2017
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    as if 5,000 aren’t still making their final stand at the bottom of the Mediterranean

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  14. 17 Aug 2017
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    They talk about the numbers as if this isn’t still happening, As if 500,000 didn’t just die in Syria,

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  15. 17 Aug 2017
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    Sudan, so restless, the Nile couldn’t hold us together and you ask me to summarize?

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  16. 17 Aug 2017
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    as if each of those bodies found a grave right here in my esophagus. Our once country— all north, and south, and east, and west—

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  17. 17 Aug 2017
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    My mind echoes through the numbers: One million gone, 400,000 dead in Darfur, two million displaced and this lump takes over my throat...

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  18. 17 Aug 2017
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    I feel my feet rock back and forth on the heels my mother bought, begging the question: do we stay, or is it safer to choose flight?

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  19. 17 Aug 2017
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    ...under the weight of this dress The woman says, the one millionth refugee just left South Sudan, can you comment?

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  20. 17 Aug 2017
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    Recognizing the millionth refugee to cross the border from South Sudan: They hand me the microphone as my shoulders sink...

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