In this interview Bina Shah talks about the media representations of Pakistan, the impact of Malala Yousafzai, and the future of women in Pakistan.
Read more...
In 2012, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi talked with Sampsonia Way about her journalism, the challenges of reporting in exile, and her current project, a memoir. She will be reading at City of Asylum on Friday.
Read more...
In this exclusive interview, the award-winning filmmaker and Surrealist Jan Švankmajer discusses censorship, the history of the Czech-Slovak Surrealist Group, his most recent work, and his ideas on freedom and revolution.
Read more...
From our ongoing series “The Writer’s Block,” a Q&A with investigative journalist and poet John Schoorl conducted during his visit to City of Asylum Pittsburgh. Schoorl is the author of A Capella and Uitloopgroef (‘Run-out-groove’).
Read more...
In this interview, political science professor Jonathan Harris talks about the documentary Putin’s Kiss, the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement, the limits of freedom of speech in Russia, and the future of political opposition and dissent in the country.
Read more...
From our ongoing series The Writer’s Block, a Q&A with Dutch poet Lucas Hirsch at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. Hirsch is the author of two collections of poems, familie gebiedt (2006) and tastzin (2009).
Read more...
A video of our interview with Hélène Gelèns, writer of poetry, essays, and short prose, conducted on Sampsonia Way, in front of the Jazz House. Gelèns and other Dutch poets came to Pittsburgh to read at a City of Asylum event.
Read more...
