Draft:Pacifist Farooq
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Pacifist Farooq | |
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Born | 07/05/2000 Myanmar |
Education | Higher Education at the University of Myanmar |
Occupation | Author/ Writer |
Organization | Arkansas Hand |
Title | Poetry recitation Platform from the Rohingya Community |
Pacifist Farooq is a Rohingya poet, teacher and humanitarian activist. He was born and raised in Buthidaung, Northern Rakhine State of Myanmar. Simply because of being a Rohingya, he was prevented from pursuing higher education at the University of Myanmar. In August 2017, He narrowly escaped from the violent operations of Myanmar military which U.S. government has officially recognized as genocide. He now lives as a refugee in Cox’s Bazaar refugee camp.
However, he is a polyglot; he is good at Rakhine ( local language), Burmese, Bengali and Hindi/Urdu. He is the author of A Lost Bird: Between Genocide and Displacedment, and founder of Arakanese Hand, the first ever poetry recitation platform from the Rohingya community, through which he trained hundreds of youths on poetry writing. He mostly write poems on education, human rights, woman’s rights and on the plight of the Rohingya. For him, writing is part of advocacy for human rights and peace. He has published poems in many anthologies and in several leading journals, including in Kenyon review in United State and The Telegraph newspaper in England. Besides, he has written several articles, using the name Pacifist Farooq or another pseudonym for his safety, on the Rohingya crisis and the Millitary coup in Myanmar for Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) English based in Thailand, The Daily Star in Bangladesh and Rohingya Vision in Malaysia, etc.