I Feel No Peace w/ Kaamil Ahmed

Join the Refugee Week 2025 events committee for an inspiring event exploring how communities can be powerful forces for welcome, resilience, and change.

The event will feature a panel discussion with Joel Mordi, a Nigerian LGBTQI+ and refugee rights activist, Kaamil Ahmed, a Guardian journalist and author of I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas & Rivers and Reginald Oko-Flex Inya, Director of Operations of Unique Support Hub. Additionally, an exhibition of Kaamil Ahmed’s photographs will explore the lives of Myanmar’s Rohingya minority in exile.

About the book

Rohingya men, women and children have been fleeing their homes for forty years. The tipping point came in August 2017, when almost 700,000 were wrung from Myanmar in a single military operation. Today, very few members of this Muslim minority remain in the country. Instead, they live mostly in Bangladesh’s refugee camps; or precariously in Malaysia, India, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere.

With the Rohingya almost entirely in exile, I Feel No Peace is the first book-length exploration of their lives abroad, drawing on hundreds of hours of interviews and long-standing relationships within the diaspora. Kaamil Ahmed speaks to the families of snatched children, and people kidnapped to feed the human trafficking nourished by Rohingya suffering. Most disturbingly, he reveals the complicity of NGOs and the UN in the refugees’ plight.

But Ahmed also uncovers resilience and hope; stories of how a scattered community survives. The lives uncovered in I Feel No Peace are complex, heart-breaking and unforgettable.

About the author

Kaamil Ahmed is a journalist at The Guardian, covering international development. Born in East London, he previously lived in and reported from Jerusalem, Bangladesh and Turkey. Kaamil studied at Queen Mary University of London. This is his first book.