For me, a border is not passing
It is not to pass from one country
If you are not allowed
to take part in life.
– Parwana Amiri
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Parwana Amiri is a poet and activist. Having fled Afghanistan as a teenager, she spent years living in refugee camps in Greece. Parwana invokes the power of poetry to convey the realities of the refugee experience. Email: parwana.amiri112345@gmail.com