From meeting Muhammad Ali to building 'MeWe'
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One missed plane or revoked visa and Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din’s life would look completely different. His father immigrated to the U.S. from the embattled region of Kashmir. Throughout his childhood, Mohsin returned to Kashmir during the height of war in the 1990’s surviving bullets and bomb blasts. Years later, Mohsin discovered storytelling practices to heal and reclaim agency of his health and human rights. In surviving his story, he also bears witness to the stories untold of his community, stories of resilience and resistance.
For over 15 years, he has traveled to Syrian refugee camps in the Middle East, migrant shelters in Central America and juvenile detention centers in the United States, to architect spaces of creative expression and narrative change. In doing so, Mohsin witnesses something extraordinary. In each seemingly forgotten place there are artists, medicine men, activists, and storytellers who refuse to be invisible. These voices are fighting for the light.
Follow Mohsin to these sacred spaces of the compassionate unseen, and discover how stories and words can be medicine for healing, perspective taking, and positive change. Hear first-hand how forgotten people and places are placing curiosity above fear, and upholding perspectives above conclusions to remodel the world.
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