We treat displacement as a physical act of crossing a border. But for Yasin Arafat and the one million Rohingya displaced from Myanmar, displacement is archival, psychological, and generational. It is a system that attempts to steal a people's continuity and their ability to imagine a future.

In this episode of Builders of the Broken Bazaar, Dr. Tabish Zaman is joined by Yasin Arafat, a human rights advocate who spent five years in the refugee camps of Bangladesh after fleeing the 2017 crackdown in Myanmar. Yasin dismantles the "victim" label, reframing the Rohingya experience not just through the lens of suffering, but through the lens of enormous resilience and leadership.

Together, they discuss the emotional weight of being defined as a "number," the profound impact of edu ...