1. Emtithal "Emi" Mahmoud is a Sudanese-American poet and activist, who won the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam championship.
10 Facts About Emtithal Mahmoud
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Emtithal Mahmoud then moved to the United States in 1998.
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Emtithal Mahmoud's sister is poet and activist Afaq "Foo Foo" Mahmoud.
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Emtithal Mahmoud then attended Yale University, where she studied anthropology and Molecular Biology and graduated in 2016.
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Emtithal Mahmoud first encountered spoken word poetry as an undergraduate at Yale University.
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Emtithal Mahmoud dedicated a poem to Alan Kurdi called Boy in the Sand.
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Since high school, Emtithal Mahmoud has been an activist, advocating for attention to the continuing violence in Darfur.
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Emtithal Mahmoud was on the BBC's 100 Women list of "The most Inspirational Women across the World" in 2015, and she was invited to a 2016 roundtable with President Obama, when he visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore.
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In 2017, Emtithal Mahmoud took part in the How to Do Good speaker tour, performing poetry and discussing her advocacy work in New York, Oslo, Stockholm, The Hague, Brussels, Paris, London, and York in 2018.
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Since 2014, Emtithal Mahmoud has been advocating for the rights of sickle cell disease patients in Nepal.