Sudanese American Emi Mahmoud achieved massive success as a spoken word artist. Now she's switching things up and pursuing a career in science.
Slam poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Emi Mahmoud performs at the Sziget Festival in Hungary in 2019.Slam poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Emi Mahmoud performs at the Sziget Festival in Hungary in 2019."Memories of my childhood live/between the rings of sand around my ankles/ and the desert heat in my lungs.
"When my family found out about it, [they said] you need to get your wife and your daughter out now to safety," says Mahmoud. That's when they decided to flee Sudan in 1994, when she was just a year old. In the poem"People Like Us," she wrote:"I remember their laces, scarlet footprints on the floor ... Fear is the coldest thing in the desert, and it burns you – bows you down to half your height and owns you."Upon returning home to Philadelphia, Mahmoud felt disconnected from her normal life in the U.S."After I just went through all this trauma, I [had] to start second grade, understanding that, oh, people die for education," she says.
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