Roots of Arakan

Murshid Alam’s presentation will focus on the The Roots of Arakan project. This initiative brings together a team of young people from both Bangladesh and Myanmar, and includes young people of Rakhine, Bangladeshi, and Rohingya origin. They are united by a shared vision and work together to support their communities. The focus of the project is historical preservation, storytelling, and research-based documentation. It is an effort aimed at recording and protecting the diverse narratives of the Rohingya and other peoples of Arakan and the border areas. Their goal is to challenge historical erasure, contribute to justice and reconciliation, and to foster interethnic understanding through rigorous research, oral histories, cultural archiving, and advocacy.

Date: 30 March 2026 (Monday)

Time: 06:00 – 07:00 PM (Melbourne Time)
          01:30-02:30 PM (Myanmar/Yangon Time)
          01:00-2:00 PM (Bangladesh Time)

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Murshid Alam has participated in AMI seminars and speaks from the unique position of a young Rohingya. He is a Founder of Rohingya Youth Union-RYU, Director of Roots of Arakan Project, Global Youth Ambassador, NGFP Fellow, and an advocate for refugee rights. Murshid works to strengthen citizen action across borders, in the fields of Global Advocacy, Leadership, Diplomacy, Human Rights and Peacebuilding.

For AMI this is an opportunity to hear from voices which are rarely heard and whose perspective speaks to one of the most traumatic and difficult experiences in recent Myanmar history.