A (Micro) Interview with Pascal Rambert
French director Pascal Rambert discusses the process of creating and directing A (micro) history of world economics, danced. City of Asylum‘s Pittsburgh presentation of the performance occurred on June...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: Azerbaijani Journalist and Human Rights Activist Arzu Geybulla
The Freedom Chat is an ongoing series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&As,...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Willie Perdomo
On June 18, 2015, Willie Perdomo came to City of Asylum to participate in the fifth annual reading by Cave Canem poets. Cave Canem, an African American poetry organization, was founded by Toi...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Amber Flora Thomas
On June 18, 2015, Amber Flora Thomas came to City of Asylum to participate in the fifth annual reading by Cave Canem poets. Cave Canem, an African American poetry organization, was founded by Toi...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Cornelius Eady
On June 18, 2015, Cornelius Eady came to City of Asylum to participate in the fifth annual reading by Cave Canem poets. Along with Toi Dericotte, Cornelius Eady founded Cave Canem, an African American...
View ArticleSlideshow: Cartoons by Ecuadorian Artist Bonil
Who Holds the Megaphone? http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/grito-megáfono.jpg In Ecuador, President Correa regularly denounces journalists and the press on his weekly...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Birgül Oğuz and Armen of Armenia
Turkish writer Birgül Oğuz, winner of the European Union Prize for Literature, is the author of Fasulyenin Bildiği, or What the Bean Knows, (2007) and Hah (2012). Armen of Armenia, who incorporates...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: Zone 9 Blogger Soleyana Gebremichael
The Freedom Chat is an ongoing video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: Bangladeshi Writer Anisur Rahman (audio only)
The Freedom Chat is an ongoing interview series by Sampsonia Way featuring conversations with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these...
View ArticleSlideshow: Free Speech in Bangladesh
Naam by Arifur Rahman http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Naam-pt1-by-Arifur-Rahman.png Man: "Hey boy, what's your name?" Boy: "My name is Babu." Man: "Before your name you have...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Harris Khalique
Harris Khalique is a Pakistani poet who writes in both Urdu and English. He occasionally writes in Punjabi as well. Currently based in Islamabad, Pakistan, he was a fall resident at the 2015...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Antonio Casilli
A debate about mass surveillance, the right to privacy, and national security is happening now. Some have claimed that the age of privacy has ended, particularly with Edward Snowden’s 2013 revelation...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Larry Siems
Guantanamo Diary is a memoir by Mohamedou Slahi, a Mauritanian citizen who has been held in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay for thirteen years and five months. He has never been charged with a crime....
View ArticleThe Freedom Chat: Index on Censorship’s Hannah Machlin
The Freedom Chat is an ongoing video series by Sampsonia Way featuring interviews with journalists and other media workers facing censorship and repression in their home countries. In these Q&A’s,...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Chen Guangcheng
The Barefoot Lawyer is a memoir by Chen Guangcheng, a self-taught lawyer who became one of China’s most prominent political activists. Chen was born in a rural village of Dongshigu, China. Blinded by...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Vu Tran
Vu Tran is the author of Dragonfish, a risk-taking literary crime novel that concerns the disappearance of a Vietnamese woman, and her pursuit by her husband, an Oakland police officer. Dragonfish...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Q&A with Sabreen Kadhim
Sabreen Kadhim is City of Asylum’s poet-in-residence from Iraq. She has published poems widely in Iraqi magazines and newspapers, such as Al-Sabah, Al-Taakhi, and Al-Zamaan newspapers as well as...
View ArticleCensored Sounds: “El Horia”
Rapper Khaled Harara is considered an “enemy of the state” of Palestine. His lyrics criticize the humanitarian situation in Palestine and lack of freedom of expression under Hamas rule. While living...
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Slideshow: The Books of the Bonsai Poet
After Tuhin Das’s first collection was published in Bangladesh, he became known as the “Bonsai Poet.” His work responds to his observation that people in his home country were becoming confined like...
View ArticleThe Writer’s Block: A Video Q&A with Fariba Hachtroudi
Writer and advocate Fariba Hachtroudi is the author of three novels and several works of nonfiction. Born in Tehran in 1951, she left the country after the Cultural Revolution. After thirty years in...
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