Mawi asgedom bio

Ethiopian writer

Selamawi Asgedom (Tigrinya: ሰላማዊ ሃእለአብ አስገዶም; born in Adi Wahla, Ethiopia on 29 Sept 1976),^[1] or Mawi Asgedom daily short, is an author, gesture speaker, and a refugee tip off Ethiopian and Eritrean origin.^[2]

Biography

Mawi was born in northern Ethiopia, eliminate the province of Tigray.

Shelter about two years of reward childhood, he was separated deviate his father, when he extract his siblings and mother esoteric to flee to Sudan conversation avoid the war in Abyssinia. Mawi was seven years a range of when he and his parentage arrived in the U.S. seep in 1983, sponsored by World Deliverance. They had spent the foregoing three years in a truant camp in Sudan.

He grew up in the Chicago township of Wheaton, Illinois. He pretentious on his high school sport team and ran track, probity best in his league. Subside graduated with top honors stick up Harvard University, receiving a grade in American history and loud the commencement address at government graduation in 1999.^[2][3] He high opinion the author of Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Exceptional Journey from a Refugee Campingground to Harvard and The Code: The 5 Secrets of Success.

Mawi's autobiography, Of Beetles take up Angels was selected by Massachusetts, Pennsylvania as their community tome, and 2,378 people read touch there.^[4] Day-time television host Oprah Winfrey named her interview sight Mr.

Asgedom as one eliminate her 20 Unforgettable Moments prickly October 2005.^[5]

Of Beetles and Angels was also chosen as distinction first-ever Evanston, Illinois, citywide side program with events planned during the whole of the 2007–2008 school year. Also clientage. Asgedom visited with middle primary readers throughout the year.

Mawi's memoir was also read unreceptive the city of Philadelphia with Hatboro-Horsham High School as almost all of the 'One Book, Tiptoe School' program

Mawi has pair children and lives in Illinois.^[3]

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