Emtithal “Emi” Mahmoud via Button Poetry delivers another staggering piece, titled “People Like Us”. Accompany this performance with Mahmoud’s “The Bride”, shared here on the Larkspur Horne July 12, 2016
Emi Mahmoud is the winner of both the 2016 Women of the World Poetry Slam and the 2015 Individual World Poetry Slam Championships. Learn more about Emi Mahmoud here, and also read her award winning poem, “Mama”.
The Larkspur Horne 
Wow. Emotions rage up and down and are conflicted with war, devastation and the cruelty of violence and with the beauty also of her words, and the person. Such talent.
Emi Mahmoud’s poems and performances are riveting and wonderful; I feel tingles and flushed with emotion every time!