By Mia DiFelice The following conversation is part of an ongoing series called Memories in Exile, in which we interview current and former resident writers who have come to Pittsburgh and lived in exile on Sampsonia […]
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Osama Alomar settles into his home in Pittsburgh’s North Side and opens up Skype. In Quebec, Canada, more than 750 miles away, C.J. Collins sits at his desk, pulls a set of headphones over his ears, […]
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The UNHCR estimates that over 500,000 Syrians will be in need of international refuge and resettlement in 2018.
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PJ Harvey and ICORN rapper Ramy Essam’s song “The Camp” details the conditions faced by displaced Syrian children in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Proceeds from the sale of the song will be donated to the Beyond Association, a NGO which imrpoves the conditions of refugees in Lebanon, like those in Bekaa Valley.
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Never before published fiction by Syrian writer-in-residence Osama Alomar, from The Teeth of the Comb and Other Stories.
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Syrian writer and ICORN writer-in-residence in Sweden Housam Al-Mosilli speaks about life in exile, his own writing, and Syria’s future.
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The very short stories of Osama Alomar, Syrian writer-in-residence of City of Asylum Pittsburgh, are crafted with the speed and incision of a bullet.
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