Thousand 4 £1000 warmly invites you to participate in the third event in our Citizens of the World in Conversation series - online discussion events exploring stories of migration, culture, creativity and connection from around the globe.

Sam Berkson is a poet from London. He has been performing poetry for many years as ‘Angry Sam’. He is part of the Hammer & Tongue collective. After visiting refugees from Western Sahara in 2013 as a poet in residence, Sam co-authored (with Mohamed Labat Sulaiman) Settled Wanderers, a collection of poetry and essays, featuring poems from the greatest living poets of the Western Sahara, such as Badi, Beyibouh and Al Khadra, as well as Sam's own poetry written in the refugee camps.

Sam will be in conversation with Mohamedsalem Wared, an activist with Saharawi Voice, who lives in Smara refugee camp in Algeria. Around half of the former nomadic people of Western Sahara (the Saharawi) live in refugee camps around the isolated desert town of Tindouf over the border in Algeria.

Sam and Mohamedsalem will discuss the Saharawi people's resistance to a decades-long occupation of Western Sahara by Morocco, life in the refugee camps and the importance of poetry in Saharawi culture.