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Movie Review: An Animated Refugee Odyssey based on Rumi — “Lamya’s Poem”  rogersmovienation.com

Syrian teen refugees turned to filmmaking to tell their stories  unrefugees.org

‘Lamya’s Poem’ Trailer Details Rumi-Inspired Syrian Refugee Tale (EXCLUSIVE)  Variety

Animated film ‘Lamya’s Poem’ on Syrian refugees gets a US release  Arab News

LAMYA'S POEM -- A Harmless, Underwhelming Modern-Day Fable  disappointment media

Celebs Use Poetry To Highlight The Plight Of Refugees  HuffPost

This Powerful Film About Girls' Education Was Written and Performed by Refugees  Global Citizen

Watch: West End Films Offers a New Look at ‘Lamya’s Poem’  Animation Magazine

Warsan Shire’s Portraits of Somalis in Exile  The New Yorker

Name Me Lawand review – empathic and inspiring portrait of deaf Iraqi refugee boy  The Guardian

Animated Feature ‘Lamya's Poem’ Now Available  Animation World Network

Award of Distinction; film festival; refugee clinic  Emory University

To a Land Unknown | Film About Palestinian Refugees Feels Achingly Resonant and Necessary  HeadStuff

The 15th Charity Refugee Film Festival  UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

Poems on Immigration  Poetry Foundation

Paul Tran  National Endowment for the Arts (.gov)

Lamya’s Poem Animated Trailer Has Young Girl Leaping Between Current and Past Syria  LRMonline

War baby: the amazing story of Ocean Vuong, former refugee and prize-winning poet  The Guardian

Modern books about refugees you need to know about  UNHCR - The UN Refugee Agency

‘Dirty stories’: Vietnamese-American writer’s refugee life in 1980s San Jose becomes poetry  The Mercury News

In Times of Division, Finding Refuge—And Fighting Back—Through Art  Vogue

Review | In ‘To a Land Unknown,’ a new lens on the timeless story of migration  The Washington Post

‘It’s Time You Became a Refugee!’: The Films of Ritwik Ghatak  Frieze

‘Ghost Trail’ Review: Adam Bessa Electrifies a Tense Refugee Revenge Thriller  Variety

Fire at Sea review – from the migrant crisis, a gentle poetry  The Guardian

Aleef Mahmud: A resident of the Asylum brings artificial intelligence and poetry to Somerville  The Somerville Times

‘The Story Won’t Die’ Review: Art in a Time of Crisis (Published 2022)  The New York Times

'Humanity Is Subjective'  The Atlantic