Tibetan activist Tsering Woeser documents Tibetan writers and teachers who have been arrested or imprisoned since 2008 by authorities in Sichuan province, China.
Read more...
A Zimbabwean writer exiled in Denmark, Tagarira is a staunch critic of Robert Mugabe. Here are two poems from his book Mugabe Must Go!, a concentrated political attack in the form of 87 succinct poems.
Read more...
In this interview South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin talks about the importance of everyday love, why we need to find our Moms again, and the way that her book blends collective and personal histories. In May 2011, Shin gave a reading at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
Read more...
A poem from Syrian poet Maram al-Massri from her Red Cherry on a White Tile Floor, who also spoke to Sampsonia Way about the Arab Spring and the Syrian uprising.
Read more...
Q&A with writer and activist Taslima Nasrin, who has lived in exile since the early ’90s. Here, she speaks about women’s rights in relation to Islamic law. Nasrin has faced two fatwas in India and three in her home country, Bangladesh
Read more...
In this interview with Sampsonia Way, Syrian poet Maram al-Massri discusses being a female poet in Syria, censorship, freedom of expression, social media, and the Arab Spring.
Read more...
May 28 marks the 50th Anniversary of Amnesty International, a network of activists dedicatd to global human rights. Watch a video marking the historical milestone.
Read more...
