Born in Damascus, Syria in 1968 and now living in Pittsburgh via Chicago, Osama Alomar is one of the most well-respected Arabic poets writing today, and a prominent practitioner of the Arabic al-qisa al-qasira jiddan, the […]
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A new poem by Sampsonia Way columnist, Tarık Günersel.
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Never before published fiction by Syrian writer-in-residence Osama Alomar, from The Teeth of the Comb and Other Stories.
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The very short stories of Osama Alomar, Syrian writer-in-residence of City of Asylum Pittsburgh, are crafted with the speed and incision of a bullet.
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Vilma Vargas’s politically charged cartoons have drawn criticism from Raphael Correa’s regime, and last May an exhibition of her work was censored by Ecuador’s cultural organization.
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“We’ll celebrate the vigil as we have done since always, since we were others, protected by the blessing of being alive.”
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Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco reads “Havanasis” during City of Asylum’s Jazz Poetry Month.
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