Sarah AK Ahmed: Poem @ Anti-Drone Conference In Syracuse, NY (2013-04-27)
Channel: oixor387
Date: 2013-05-01

Sarah AK Ahmed, from Iraq, recites a poem that she had written for the workshop, "The Human Face Of War," co-presented with Fidaa Abu-Assi, Rooj Alwazir, Mohammed Ahmed Abbas, and Noor Mir at the "Resisting Drones, Global War and Empire: A Convergence to Action!" conference sponsored by the Upstate Coalition To Ground The Drones & End The Wars at the SouthWest Community Center in Syracuse, NY on April 27, 2013.

Sarah's Bio, courtesy of UCTGTD&ETW ( http://upstatedroneaction.org/speakers-2013.html/ ):

"Sarah Ahmed's family lived in Baghdad where her father was a professor in the Engineering Department at Baghdad University when the US Shock and Awe War came and upended their world. In around 2006, Sarah's father received death threats. Sarah was attending Baghdad University in the Dentistry program at the time. She insisted on staying behind to attend school when the rest of the family left for Amman. Sarah graduated from Baghdad University in 2010, and joined her famiy in Jordan. Sarah studied in Damascus with the Iraq Student Project, and later spent a year as a top student at the University of Rochester before family obligations took her back to Jordan. She was a speaker at the yearly conference of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women." 

Upstate Coalition To Ground The Drones & End The Wars Home Website:
http://upstatedroneaction.org/

Event Page:
http://upstatedroneaction.org/schedule-april-2013.html/