Poetry by Eden Habtemichael and Hasan Bamyani, for Asylum Welcome & the Ashmolean Museum
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Eden Habtemichael, a journalist and
Eden Habtemichael, a journalist and poet from Eritrea and Hasan Bamyani, an Oxford-based poet from Afghanistan perform a selection of their poetry.
This video is part of the Ashmolean's 2020-21 One World Festival. One World is a celebration of the many communities and faiths of Oxfordshire and is needed more than ever in these challenging times. Our theme 'Light in the Dark' will bring hope as well as opportunities for reflection through a series of talks, performances, and activities. www.ashmolean.org/oneworld
Find out more about Asylum Welcome, Oxford, at: www.asylum-welcome.org
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Eden Habtemichael, a journalist from Eritrea, was awarded The Woman of the Year Award in 2017 organised by Migrants Organise and UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency to celebrate the vital contributions that refugee and migrant women are making to communities across the country. This award honours women who use positivity and inventiveness to make exceptional contributions to UK society and lead others to inspire social change.
Eden arrived in the UK with her two-year old daughter, Segen, in 2001. With only a few words of English and little money, Eden struggled with destitution and depression. Eden decided to face these new challenges, resolving to support asylum seekers and refugees once she was back on her feet. 20 years later, Eden is one of the founders of the Sanctuary Hosting and now she is the Services Coordinator at Sanctuary Hosting, having previously coordinated the Women’s Service of Refugee Resource in Oxfordshire for 13 years. Eden has published two books of poetry in English and has supported Segen, her daughter, who is an ice-skating champion. Eden worked as a senior broadcast journalist for the BBC’s Horn of Africa service.
In this film, Eden introduces her poetry and shares four of her poems: ‘Arrival’; ‘Secretary’: ‘My Dream’ and ‘The Ice Queen out of Africa’.
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Hasan Bamyani is an exciting Oxford-based poet from Afghanistan. Hasan worked as a teacher in Kabul until 1998, when he had to flee his homeland and came to Oxford as a refugee. Hasan’s work is featured in the anthology The Story of my Life: Refugees Writing in Oxford, edited by Carole Angier and published by The Charlbury Press, and he is the author of the poetry collection Lyla and Majnon. Hasan’s beautiful and vivid poetry evokes memories of life in Kabul and explores themes of war, displacement, resettlement, home and longing.
Hasan’s poems have been translated from Persian in collaboration with the writer James Attlee. James does not speak or read Dari. He and Hasan enjoy a close collaborative process, working through poems line by line over multiple drafts to find a satisfactory translation. The English version does not attempt to replicate the formal structure and rhyme scheme of the original, instead concentrating on capturing Hasan’s voice.
Hasan introduces and shares two of his poems in this film: ‘Kite’ and ‘Darde Dell’. His first poem ‘Kite’ is about ‘kite running’ in Kabul, in which participants compete by cutting their opponents’ lines with the aim of being the last one to still have a kite in the air. Hassan’s other poem, ‘Darde Dell’ literally means ‘pain heart’ – sitting with a friend and sharing your sorrows.
This video is part of the Ashmolean's 2020-21 One World Festival. One World is a celebration of the many communities and faiths of Oxfordshire and is needed more than ever in these challenging times. Our theme 'Light in the Dark' will bring hope as well as opportunities for reflection through a series of talks, performances, and activities. www.ashmolean.org/oneworld
Find out more about Asylum Welcome, Oxford, at: www.asylum-welcome.org
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Eden Habtemichael, a journalist from Eritrea, was awarded The Woman of the Year Award in 2017 organised by Migrants Organise and UNHCR, The UN Refugee Agency to celebrate the vital contributions that refugee and migrant women are making to communities across the country. This award honours women who use positivity and inventiveness to make exceptional contributions to UK society and lead others to inspire social change.
Eden arrived in the UK with her two-year old daughter, Segen, in 2001. With only a few words of English and little money, Eden struggled with destitution and depression. Eden decided to face these new challenges, resolving to support asylum seekers and refugees once she was back on her feet. 20 years later, Eden is one of the founders of the Sanctuary Hosting and now she is the Services Coordinator at Sanctuary Hosting, having previously coordinated the Women’s Service of Refugee Resource in Oxfordshire for 13 years. Eden has published two books of poetry in English and has supported Segen, her daughter, who is an ice-skating champion. Eden worked as a senior broadcast journalist for the BBC’s Horn of Africa service.
In this film, Eden introduces her poetry and shares four of her poems: ‘Arrival’; ‘Secretary’: ‘My Dream’ and ‘The Ice Queen out of Africa’.
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Hasan Bamyani is an exciting Oxford-based poet from Afghanistan. Hasan worked as a teacher in Kabul until 1998, when he had to flee his homeland and came to Oxford as a refugee. Hasan’s work is featured in the anthology The Story of my Life: Refugees Writing in Oxford, edited by Carole Angier and published by The Charlbury Press, and he is the author of the poetry collection Lyla and Majnon. Hasan’s beautiful and vivid poetry evokes memories of life in Kabul and explores themes of war, displacement, resettlement, home and longing.
Hasan’s poems have been translated from Persian in collaboration with the writer James Attlee. James does not speak or read Dari. He and Hasan enjoy a close collaborative process, working through poems line by line over multiple drafts to find a satisfactory translation. The English version does not attempt to replicate the formal structure and rhyme scheme of the original, instead concentrating on capturing Hasan’s voice.
Hasan introduces and shares two of his poems in this film: ‘Kite’ and ‘Darde Dell’. His first poem ‘Kite’ is about ‘kite running’ in Kabul, in which participants compete by cutting their opponents’ lines with the aim of being the last one to still have a kite in the air. Hassan’s other poem, ‘Darde Dell’ literally means ‘pain heart’ – sitting with a friend and sharing your sorrows.
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