At 18, Ambassador Amir Fehri testifies on school bullying

• At 12, Tunisian Amir Fehri published his first book.

  Six years later, he will release his sixth.

  He has also been a Creative Youth Ambassador for the Arab League since he was 16.

• Today in Nice, he is a medical student but continues his international actions by carrying the messages of peace, in particular about school bullying, of which he was the victim during his childhood and adolescence and on which he wrote an autobiographical book.

• The international school project for refugee children in Mosul, Iraq will be launched "by 2025".

  Thus, he wants to convey to all young people a message of hope on how to get out of it.

Amir Fehri is a young Tunisian, who arrived in France in 2016 for his education, 18 years old who has just joined the Faculty of Medicine in Nice.

Studies that take him a lot of time but with which he manages to reconcile his other activities, which include, among others, that of establishing the first international school in Iraq or of fulfilling his role of ambassador of creative youth for the Arab League. (a regional organization with observer status with the UN).

Without forgetting the publication "within six months" of his next book which tells "everything he has seen in recent years", especially in diplomatic circles.

He will thus sign his sixth book since he was 12 years old.

With

, he returns in particular to the messages he has been carrying against bullying throughout the world since the publication of his autobiographical novel at the age of 15.

How did you experience the story of Dinah, a 14 year old girl victim of bullying who committed suicide at the beginning of October?

Since 2021, in France, there have been eighteen minors who have committed suicide, victims of school harassment. It is a constant problem. Even when we talk about it in the media, it continues. In Dinah's story, I recognized pieces of mine. Like the fact of not daring to file a complaint. We are afraid that this will increase the problem and we have the feeling that it will become an interminable event. We also have the impression of being at fault, of being responsible for what happens to us. We need to talk about it more, so that it becomes a priority in the international sphere. Education must constantly focus on prevention, but it is also necessary to make the aggressor aware of the consequences of having such acts and that justice follow. Young people need action.

How, at your level, is it possible to try to change these questions?

What I say a lot to the young people I meet all over the world is that being an ambassador is not just about diplomatic relations with other nations.

We are an ambassador for a cause, we carry a message.

By being the “messenger” of the creative youth for the Arab League, I am the spokesperson for all the problems of this youth.

Of all their thoughts.

We have a lot of them at our age but they do not necessarily have the consideration they deserve.

So I use my youthful position before politicians to remind governments of the importance of these concerns.

Through such events related to my generation, I also like to remember that I was a person who never thought of getting out.

But I finally succeeded.

How did you get there?

My abusers picked on me because I was different.

I spoke Kurdish in Tunisia, I had spent a class when it was not common in the country.

I changed schools seven times but it followed me.

I decided to take refuge in writing.

I published 

in 2018, at the age of 15, to show that this subject was not just a teenager's subject but that it had an important place in the adult world.

With a little luck factor, notoriety helped me, because it could have been worse.

Unfortunately, we know that bullying kills people, but it does so in different ways.

It has serious repercussions for the future.

The vulnerability one acquires can trigger stress and other illnesses.

What are the objectives of your fight?

I think the most important message to get across, in France or elsewhere, is the power we have when we get together among young people.

I know from experience that it is difficult to have credibility, but very large projects can be born under the impetus of neutral bodies.

It was thought that the international school for refugees that I wanted to create in Mosul was just a childhood dream.

Today, I am supported by the UN and 1,200 pupils from primary to final will be able to obtain a diploma with its opening by 2025. And it is spreading, I am going to Côte d'Ivoire soon to see if it t is possible to install one in this country.

I don't know what I'll do with my life, but I already know that our voice can change the world.

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