Mayyu Ali’s poetry book, ‘Exodus – Between Genocide and Me’ describes his experiences and his journey escaping to the relative safety of Coxs Bazaar refugee camp in Bangladesh. Around 700,000 Rohingya people fled in 2017, joining about 300,000 Rohingya men, women and children who had arrived after fleeing earlier waves of violence. Mayyu is one of the people who escaped in 2017. We talk about the...
Aryan Ashory is a hugely talented and inspiring young Afghan poet, filmmaker and human rights activist. She writes in four languages and her poetry was recently featured on PBS in America. She reads several of her poems, including ‘Hey Talib a Stain of Shame in Our History , ‘Don’t Kick Us Like a Ball’ and ‘Like a Black Ceiling Dark and Silent’ which explore, among other things, the way women are...
Dawood Saleh is the author of ‘Walking Alone’, an account of the Yazidi genocide. He’s a humanitarian activist, a genocide survivor and the host of The Dawood Show on Youtube which focuses on Yazidi stories. His book ‘Walking Alone’ is a powerful account, based on many interviews Dawood did with survivors of the genocide. And of course, his own personal experience. And he reads several of the...
From Tamra to Tel Aviv, Nazareth to Jerusalem, listen to members of Mahapach-Taghir (change in Hebrew-Arabic) and Sadaka-Reut (friendship in Arabic-Hebrew), and to women from all communities, to see how they’re working on the ground in marginalised areas. ‘It’s in the community, it deals with women, students and children; and it deals with Jewish and Arab, so I cannot find a more holistic way to...
Syrian Kurdish / UK poet Amir Darwish has published two collections of poetry – ‘Don’t Forget The Couscous’ and ‘Dear Refugee’, and the first part of his autobiography, ‘From Aleppo Without Love’. @bairbreflood Syrian Kurdish / UK poet Amir Darwish reads ‘We Want To Live’ from his book ‘Dear Refugee’ in second season, ep2 of WANDER 🧡 Cover art by @shukranshirzad #refugee #poetry thanks to the...
Osama Gaweesh is an Egyptian journalist who joined the Refugee Journalism Project in the UK. He explains how the project works, and why it’s so important – not just for individual journalists, but for the quality of news and media overall. His own podcast, Untold Stories, is available wherever you listen to your podcasts. Nasruddin Nizami, from Afghanistan, is co-founder of the online...
Producer Bairbre Flood talks to students and teachers and examines what the education system can learn from the success of this iconic Cork school.
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Three community organisers across three countries: Anas in Türkiye, Safdar Salmani in Greece and Mavis Ramazani in Ireland. ‘Nothing Without Us’ explores why it’s so important refugees themselves have ownership of their organisations and support — and see how different communities experienced in forced migration help to organise themselves. Anas is the community liaison officer with Small...
Raphael Olympio, aka Olympio, is an immensely talented rapper and spoken word artist from Cork who was born in Togo, West Africa. He grew up in a Direct Provision Centre and feels inspired to motivate others who come from different parts of Africa and other countries across the world – and is a youth mentor with the Cork Migrant Centre. Olympio has performed at UBUNTU: Local is Global (a CIPHER...
This week I’m talking to Iraqi poet, Majed Mujed, who’s lived in Ireland since 2015. One of the founders of the Iraqi House of Poetry, he worked as a journalist and publisher in the Iraqi cultural press for twenty years. He’s published five collections of poetry in Arabic and has garnered awards for his work from the Al Mada Cultural Foundation, Iraqi House of Wisdom and the Iraqi Intellectuals...