Hamdy el-Gazzar describes the situation swirling around Omar Hazeq who was an employee at the Library of Alexandria. Omar was dismissed from his position and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for breaking demonstration laws and taking part in a protest during the trial of Khalid Said’s murderers.
Read more...
Yaghoub Yadali recounts the attacks last year at the Boston Marathon through his lens and he describes the intense emotions that gripped him during this time.
Read more...
Sampsonia Way magazine reaches into the archives to call attention to Dutch novelist Tommy Wieringa and his recent accomplishments, including Wieringa’s book A Beautiful Young Woman.
Read more...
In this Exile Hangout, writer-in-residence Israel Centeno engages Venezuelan authors Liliana Lara, Juan Carlos Chirinos, and Juan Carlos Mendez Guedez. They reveal the realities of living overseas as Venezuelan writers and they expand upon what it means to truly live “in exile” within and outside their country of origin.
Read more...
On April 12, 2014 author Akhil Sharma sat down with Sampsonia Way magazine for this edition of “The Writer’s Block” in which Akhil reveals his painstaking writing process and the twelve year span he invested in his latest novel Family Life.
Read more...
Filmmaker Laura Varela shares her personal journey and the evolution of her documentary “raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation”. In this interview, Varela also divulges the impetuses that spurred her career and her goal to highlight the hitherto unknown latino poet and activist, raúlrsalinas.
Read more...
In the third installment of Sampsonia Way’s “The Freedom Chat”, journalist Andrea Daza Tapia shines a light on the media blackouts in Venezuela, reaffirms the power of social media, and she details the detriments incurred from the conflation of roles between media professionals and politicians.
Read more...
