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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Cornelius Eady talks about fearlessness, lessons learned, and what the future holds for Cave Canem in the last of our Writer’s Block installments with Cave Canem faculty.
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Sampsonia Way celebrates National Poetry Month by highlighting a collection of works (published, unpublished, and performed), which were created by poets who greatly contributed to the development of the magazine.
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Egyptian writer and Sampsonia Way columnist Hamdy El-Gazzar shares his notes from a recent stay at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh earlier this month. In this account, he stumbles upon the fun-filled art project Randyland, which is just around the corner from COAP writers’ residences.
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Egyptian writer and Sampsonia Way columnist Hamdy El-Gazzar shares his notes from a recent stay at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh earlier this month. In this account, he stumbles upon the fun-filled art project Randyland, which is just around the corner from COAP’s writer residences.
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This week: three newspaper employees murdered in India, Facebook makes a human rights commitment, and Bahrain’s “Blogfather” granted asylum in the U.K.
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To celebrate Women’s History Month, Sampsonia Way presents a slideshow of some of the incredible women interviewed in the past year.
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