Adam Ahmed

Adam Ahmed is a Darfuri author, born in the village of Dissa in North Darfur; his date of birth in unknown and estimated sometime between the years 1979 and 1981. Ahmed writes about Darfuri culture and the life in the countryside of Darfur before the war, about the genocide in Darfur, and about the lives of Darfuri refugees in exile.
Ahmed is currently living in Israel.
On December 2005 he participated in a demonstration in Mustafa Mahmoud Park in front of Cairo offices where at least 27 Sudanese asylum seekers were killed; he was arrested amongst hundreds others when the Egyptian police violently dispersed the demonstration.
He stayed in Egypt until 2008 when, given the Egyptian government policy of deporting Sudanese refugees back to Sudan. He moved to Eilat where he established an educational center for refugees children, who were not allowed to study in the public schools. On 2012 the "Gedera-Hadera policy" has been cancelled after the Israeli supreme court ruled that this policy was a violation of .
Ahmed has submitted his Refugee Status Determination request to the Israeli authorities in 2013 and, as thousands of other asylum seekers in Israel, is yet to receive an answer.

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