#63 - “Love Wins!” conversation : Ali’s Unseen Battle and Resilient Spirit as a Refugee”

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In this episode, I speak with Ali Reza Yawari — a Hazara refugee from Afghanistan currently living in transit country Indonesia — who shares his lived and witnessed experiences of deep and horrifying pain, resilience, forgiveness, deep compassion, healing and hope.

Together we explore the battles within and around the refugee journey living in a transit country for a very long period of time, and how, even in the darkest places, lovecontinues to rise. Love is still winning!

Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussions of war, forced displacement, trauma, and witnessing a suicide.Please listen with care and pause if you need to. Your well-being matters.

Timestamp:

00:00:00. Opening

00:02:12. Introduction of Ali Reza Yawari.

00:07:41. Ali’s life experiencing forceddisplacement as a Hazara man. Key highlights of what he experienced since in Indonesia as a transit country.

00:18:02. What Refugees in Indonesia are allowed andnot allowed doing.

00:23:48. What happens in other transit countries?

00:26:48. Explanation about the reason why staying in Indonesia as a transit country is very long.

00:30:49. How Ali survives the past ten years - his unseen battles and victories

00:44:08. Ali’s experience with local Indonesian people.

00:53:20. The type of safe space that refugees needto be able to live in a transit country well.

00:57:45. The implication of all these restrictionswithin the refugee’s youth population in Indonesia who never travelled abroad before nor interacting closely with other cultures before until they reached Indonesia. How the life in detention centers negatively impacted the youngpeople.

01:08:43. Why Ali cofounded Emplace Youth Initiativewith Muna.

01:12:15. Ali’s healing journey so far.

01:17:23. Forgiveness as an act of liberation for Ali.

01:22:58. The role of intuition in Ali’s life. Howthe lack of belonging and living being oppressed impacts Ali’s relationship with his intuition.

01:29:29. What compassion means for Ali.

01:32:09. Ali reads for us one of his poems: “I donot belong here”.

01:34:32. Ali’s hope for the future.

01:38:02. What you can take from this sharing. Ali’sinvitation to connect and how to get in touch with him.

01:40:56. Closing.

To get in touch with Ali Reza Yawari:

Email: [email protected]

LI: ⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-reza-yawari-819486155/

Emplace Initiative: https://www.linkedin.com/company/emplace-initiative/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/mr_yawari/

IG: ⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/emplaceinitiative/

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Copyrights, etc.: Music used in this episode:

“On My Way” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

"Blue Feather" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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