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Ahmad Al-Rashid (Jack)
@ahmadalrashid99
Migration, diaspora, culture, languages, food, travel and more…
Jun 20, 2021 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Today is World Refugee Day. I became a refugee almost a decade ago. Forced to leave home never wanted to leave. Left and thought it would be for a day or two. Left heart there and been living without a heart since then….

#WorldRefugeeDay The minute I crossed the borders I got a new label and it stuck with me since then… “a refugee”
Wherever I go, whatever I do, whoever I got to interact with, I will alway have the label “refugee” accompanying me…
Mar 24, 2021 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
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Yesterday evening, I co-hosted one of the most inspiring events of my entire life. Incredible people like @AlfDubs and some of Syria’s most talented musicians were featured. All of us were offered sanctuary, embraced and welcomed in the UK

The UK has a long history of welcoming those fleeing some of the most brutal regimes and wars. From the Nazis in 1940s to those fleeing the war in my home country, Syria...
Aug 9, 2020 • 18 tweets • 4 min read
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I was an asylum-seeker, I’m a refugee now! I find it very disturbing, disheartening and difficult to keep reading, watching and listening to peopel dehumasing peopel like me! I try to keep positive as much as I can but sometime it’s just too much... The abuse you receive online and the xenophobic attacks you encounter is something I have been living with from the minute I was forced to leave my house in Aleppo in early 2013 - this has become part of my everyday life...
Feb 28, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
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People trying to cross from Tureky to Greece or Bulgaria after yesterday’s developments in NW Syria need to be aware that now there are lots of smugglers and human traffickers are offering to “help”.
Since yesterday lots of WhatsApp groups created to promote this Smugglers and human traffickers see this as a great opportunity. Desperate people fleeing war, conflict and deprivation and now they are being offered hope somewhere in Europe. It’s not that easy. Smugglers are building on this and promising to get people to Europe with a feee
Nov 13, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
On World’s kindness day,

I was met so much kindness since I was forced to leave my home country, Syria. Lots of strangers helped and supported me along the way. The journey has been shaped by endless small acts of kindness that helped make life bearable

#WorldKindnessDay2019 From Many Iraqis&Kurdish friends to numerous friends and people that I made in the UK since 2015
The first act of kindness was offered to me was by a police officer after I got out of the lorry and I was traumatized but also overjoyed that I survived it
#WorldKindnessDay2019
Oct 23, 2019 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
No words can describe how I feel today. I have read the news about the bodies found in the back of a lorry with lots of horro. It brought back memories of my journey when we were stuck nearly to death in lorries and tankers and freezers with meat and chicken

Photo from 2015 The death of fellow humans whose bodies were found near Essex had me losing my mind. I was there before in 2015. I can fell what they have been through. I can hear them screaming to death because I was there. I can feel them clinging onto life but in-vain
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