For its F/W 20 campaign, Valentino asked Ahmed to create a series of poems to appear on pieces in the Valentino On Love. Mustafa Honours His Grief Through Beautiful Poetry on When Smoke Rises. This won’t be the first time the Canadian has worked with the Italian brand, either.
Mustafa is representing Muslim millennials, children of immigrants, poets, documentarians, and community organizers. Excitingly, Canadian spoken word artist Mustafa the Poet (whose real name is Mustafa Ahmed) has also been tapped for the opportunity. The advocacy present in his poetry and day-to-day life melds with lived experiences to tell emotional stories on the new project. In 2015, Mustafa became Canada’s Poet Laureate and later served on Justin Trudeau’s first Youth Advisory Council.īuilding on his history of socio-political activism, after his recent trip to Palestine, the artist took to Instagram to speak on colonialism in the country, writing “They, the zionists, will barricade them, alienate them, cut the roots of their dreams, and when & if they resist- they’ll manipulate & magnify that resistance for the world to see and call it war.” Happiness then not seconds but rather universes long to last. Throughout his youth, Mustafa focused much of his spoken word artistry on impoverishment in both Toronto and Africa, writing poems that went on to be featured on CBS News and posted by fellow Toronto native and rapper, Drake. Happiness shant on earth widewisely everlastingly be, till the smallest of creature well faired. In 1998 he sustained a serious car accident and since then he has been bound to a wheelchair, an event that gave him the urge to grab his pen and so his promising writers carreer was born. Cheap tickets to all Mustafa The Poet tour dates are available on CheapTickets. When he was three years old, he and his family emigrated to Limburg. Search all Mustafa The Poet events and get last minute tickets with a 150 money-back guarantee.
It took years to find the courage to choose this path, took years to say this my debut project, When Smoke Rises, is out everywhere. Mustafa Kr is an author and poet who was born in Konya (Turkey) in 1976.