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Ahmed is a Sudanese-Palestinian poet who fled the Sudanese Civil War in 2023. He now finds himself trapped in
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Ahmed Sarsour
Ahmed Sarsour is a Palestinian–Sudanese poet and writer based in Gaza. After fleeing the war in Sudan in 2023, he channels experiences of displacement, conflict, and survival into poetry.
Voice as resistance
Poetry as a Form of Advocacy
When the news cycle moves on, poetry holds the line. Each verse is a small refusal — a way of saying we are still here, we are still speaking, and we will not be edited out of our own story.
Ahmed's work weaves Arabic cadence with English directness, building bridges between an English-speaking audience and the daily reality of communities under occupation, siege, and erasure.
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Poetry as a Documentary Tool
Where cameras cannot reach, words can. Poetry becomes the ledger, the testimony, the proof of life.
They asked me where I'm from.
I said: from the olive tree
that remembers the names
the maps have forgotten.
I said: from the olive tree
that remembers the names
the maps have forgotten.
Every poem is a piece of evidence — for the archive, for the children who will ask one day, for the world that keeps trying to look away.
Don't Leave Us Behind FilmFounded by minorities, to uplift minorities.
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