World champion poet, Emtithal Mahmoud released an emotive poem on the 8th November, bringing awareness to the devastating impact that climate change is having on humankind, particularly on displaced people. It coincides with her attendance at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP26, this week at which she is representing refugees around the world in her role as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and as a former refugee herself. Emtithal, known as “Emi”, wrote the poem Di Baladna which means Our Land in Arabic, following a series…
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