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Unity Productions Foundation Working for Peace Through the Media Stories of Muslim Engagement History and Culture UPF Films and Educational Projects Promote Peace and Understanding Lamyas Poem Rumi a Refugee Girl LAMYAS POEM is UPFs latest film project an inspiring and timely tale about a 12yearold Syrian refugee girl named Lamya. When she flees the violence of her country she is given a book of poetry by the famous 13thcentury poet Rumi. As the perils of her journey mount the book becomes a magical gateway where she meets Rumi when he was a boy and also a refugee fleeing the violence of his time. In a shared dreamworld they battle the monsters that follow them from their real world situations.