On January 9, 2014Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright and activist, passed away at the age of 79. A leading figure of the Black Arts movement, today we remember Baraka by sharing an interview Sampsonia Way published in 2011, after he came to read with Cave Canem at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Satellite dishes, bootleg VHS tapes, uncensored films, police searches, laughter, and fear. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has imposed and removed bans on just about everything – soon such actions, says the new minister of Islamic Culture and Guidance says, will make everyone laugh.
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In Rules for Translators, Sampsonia Way presents five selections from a series by Arabic Literature featuring celebrated and award-winning literary translators about their rules for translation. In our fifth installment, questions to translators from the Middle East Studies scholar Elliott Colla.
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InformaCam, open source, application, citizen media, press freedom, internet freedom, social media, journalism, witness, guardian project, Knight Foundation, Nathan Freitas, Harlo Homes, Matisse Bustos Hawkes, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, Google Hangout
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In Rules for Translators, Sampsonia Way presents five selections from a series by Arabic Literature featuring celebrated and award-winning literary translators about their rules for translation. In our fourth installment, rules by Hala Salah Eldin Hussein, editor of the Albawtaka Review.
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Political cartoonist Jehad Awrtani (Jordan) on the US Prism program, which deemed to allow the tracking of people on the internet worldwide.
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In this exclusive interview, Tienchi Martin-Liao sits down with her long-time friend and colleague, the celebrated exiled writer Liao Yiwu. They talked about literature, emigration, and politics. If they had tried to have this conversation in China, it could have been considered illegal.
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