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Omaid Sharifi
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Artivist at #ArtLords #Wartists| @ArtLordsNet| Former @Harvard | Board @CIVICUSAlliance | @AtlanticCouncil | @AsiaSociety | Exiled | Dad | Partner @LimaAhmad
Boston-Virginia-Istanbul-Kabul
Joined May 2011
We invite you to support the #ArtLordsGallery by purchasing these extraordinary art pieces. Each artwork has been rescued from Afghanistan and is created by artists who have faced significant risks, including women and LGBTQI+ artists who have been working with ArtLords over the past decade. Your purchase celebrates their incredible talent and provides essential support, with a large portion of the proceeds directly aiding these courageous artists in need.
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RT @starsandstripes: Service members look to Trump to restart evacuations of Afghans who aided US forces
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RT @FaceTheNation: As Afghans who helped the U.S. during the war in Afghanistan are prevented from entering the U.S. due to the Trump admin…
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RT @Newsweek: Representative Michael McCaul said Sunday that the U.S. should resume resettling Afghan refugees who assisted the government…
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The irony of the situation is that even the leadership of a terrorist group in Afghanistan is using poetry as a means of communication and resistance.
د حقانیانو د صبر کاسه مخ په نسکوریدو ده.! د حقاني شبکې د مشر سراج الدین حقاني له خپګان او وروستیو اختلافونو وروسته د سراج الدین حقاني کشر ورور او د طالبانو د رهبري شورا غړی انس حقاني چې کله ناکله شعرونه هم لیکي په یو وروستي شعر کې یې په په دویم نیم بیتي کې (یاره ناز دې مننه دومره بس دی) او په یو بل بیت کې ازادي له توریالیو څخه واخلي نزاکت هم څه د جبر تنګ قفس دی . په شعر کې یې د حوصله پای ته رسیدلې ښکاري او په یوه اخطاریه شکل یې ځانونه یو بدلون ته چمتو ښودلي دي. دغه بیت یې د طالبانو د بهرنیو چارو وزارت سیاسي معین شیرمحمد عباس ستانکزي د زوی چې د نوموړي سکرتریت او رسمي چارې پرمخ وړي، بدرګه کړی دی.
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RT @CIVICUSalliance: The freeze on #USA funding affects different sectors of society, incl. the creative sector. @OmaidSharifi, CIVICUS Bo…
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RT @CIVICUSespanol: .@OmaidSharifi, miembro de la junta directiva de @CIVICUSalliance, comparte la difícil situación que están sufriendo lo…
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RT @SenAmyKlobuchar: The United States must stand by the people who supported our troops and their families. We are calling on the Adminis…
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Thank you Senator @SenAmyKlobuchar for your principled and unwavering support.
The United States must stand by the people who supported our troops and their families. We are calling on the Administration to provide answers about the impact of recent actions on our Afghan wartime allies. It is a matter of national interest and national honor.
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The Taliban take over Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel, more than a decade after attacking it via @TimesUnion
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RT @RepGregStanton: I visited with Afghan families at the Arizona Refugee Center this week. Our Afghan allies risked their lives to help U…
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پیام جوانان افغانستان را در هر نوشته و سخنشان بخوانید—سرشار از خشم، نفرت و آمادگی برای خشونت. این نشانههای آشکار زخمهای عمی��ی است که سالها جنگ، سرکوب و بیعدالتی بر روح و روان این نسل برجای گذاشته است. این وضعیت نه تنها یک هشدار، بلکه یک ندای استمداد است—یک فریاد برای همدلی، محبت و مرهمی بر این دردهای انباشته. اگر جامعه (مثلا آگاه و روشنفکر) ما فراتر از بحثهای روزمره چون کرکت و خانم دوم پروانی بیندیشد، شاید بتوانیم لحظهای به رنج مشترکمان نگاه کنیم. بیایید به جای بازتولید نفرت، دست در دست هم برای ترمیم زخمها و یافتن راهی صادقانه، قاطع و پایدار برای مقابله با رژیم تروریستی طالبان گام برداریم. آینده این سرزمین به شعور، اتحاد و مسئولیتپذیری ما وابسته است.
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Our statement at @CIVICUSalliance United States: Reverse Executive Orders threatening global progress on climate, human rights, and civic freedoms
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People from #Afghanistan account for approximately 0.13% of the total individuals on the #ICE non-detained docket with final orders of removal, making them one of the smallest national groups on the list. In comparison: #Pakistan: 0.57% #India: 1.32% The top five countries with the highest number of noncitizens on the ICE non-detained docket are: #Honduras - 261,651 individuals (19.29%) #Guatemala - 253,413 individuals (18.68%) #Mexico - 252,044 individuals (18.58%) #ElSalvador - 203,822 individuals (15.03%) #Nicaragua - 45,995 individuals (3.39%)
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Afghanistan’s Art Scene Weighs in On Taliban Move to Ban Images of Living Things. I shared some insights with @observer on the state of art and culture in #Afghanistan.
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Thousands of Americans and good people around the world and their livelihoods have been severely impacted by the @POTUS executive order to pause foreign aid. Several hundred contractors associated with @USAID have already been laid off, and NGOs reliant on federal foreign aid are facing significant financial strain. Given the scale of these programs, this decision could potentially affect thousands more employees across the U.S. in the coming months.
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The people of #Afghanistan have endured decades of dehumanization, violence, and exploitation—used as pawns by forces both within the region and beyond. This relentless suffering has stripped us of everything, leaving no strength to endure it any longer. Please take a moment to read this: @realDonaldTrump @marcorubio @afghanevac @DHSgov
Today, once again, I find myself struggling to find the words to express my feelings. For nearly four years, Afghans have been trapped in a relentless limbo, their lives consumed by a crushing uncertainty shaped by U.S. bipartisan politics. To call Afghan lives pawns in a game of electoral chess feels far too small to capture the weight of this reality. Since August 2021, I’ve carried the burden of witnessing and experiencing countless uncertainties—not just for myself but for my friends, family, colleagues, and community. I cannot forget what happened to those stuck at the gates of Kabul airport, clinging desperately to the hope that they might escape to safety. Many never made it—hundreds were killed, countless lost their children in the chaos, and thousands were left behind, losing not only their homes but their dreams of a future. In refugee camps, messages flooded in, pleading for answers I didn’t have—families wondering if their tomorrow might hold even the faintest promise of certainty. Today, some families are still scattered across the globe, stranded in hostile or precarious environments, clinging to the hope that the U.S., once their ally, might fulfill its promises to them. In the past three and a half years, I’ve met U.S. senators who expressed empathy with their words but wielded the Afghan cause as a weapon in their political games, exploiting our suffering to discredit the opposing party. Their concern always felt conditional, their actions fleeting. I’ve filled out countless forms, attended exhausting meetings, and begged lawyers to help families who couldn’t afford the obscene legal fees demanded of them. I’ve knocked on the doors of charities, leaving no stone unturned, desperate to find even a glimmer of hope. Yet despite all the effort, clarity about what comes next has remained out of reach. Even today, I woke up to the same questions and unrelenting uncertainty. I am scared to look at my phone, and I die every day because I don’t know what to tell anyone asking me what will happen to them and they feel I may be able to help. I’ve paid rent for Afghan girls in Pakistan who were sexually harassed by their landlords—knowing it might leave me short for my own rent in this country. I’ve watched the dignity of friends and colleagues crumble in refugee camps and neighboring countries, their lives reduced to waiting in squalor for the faint hope of a secure future for themselves and their children. Why are Afghans considered as illegal immigrants? Thousands of Afghans were put onto planes in August 2021, treated not as people but as problems to be managed. These were allies who served the U.S., people who risked their lives for promises of solidarity and safety. They did not arrive here illegally; they came because they were invited because they were owed. Yet today, they are dehumanized, left in a cruel limbo—floating in a void of fear, uncertainty, and abandonment, victims once again of partisan politics that treat Afghan lives as disposable. Why are Afghan lives so undervalued? Why must their dignity, their humanity, be questioned again and again? I don’t know if I’m more sad, angry, helpless, or hopeless—or if I am all of these at once…
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RT @Limaahmad: Today, once again, I find myself struggling to find the words to express my feelings. For nearly four years, Afghans have be…
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