The Iranian writer, lawyer, and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has first-hand experience dealing with threats to freedom of expression. She is currently serving an 11-year jail sentence.
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Earlier this year, ICORN’s Stavanger City of Refuge in Norway opened its doors to Norwan, a 27 year-old Afghan poet and a member of the Afghan Women’s Writing Project. Read Norwan’s poem, “Sack of Winds”.
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How did City of Asylum start in the United States? Desire Cooper tells the story of Richard Wiley, a writer and professor who helped establish the first American City of Asylum, located at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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The documentary Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, recorded before Ai’s arrest, provides cultural and political context to his provocative work, as well as a glimpse into the artist’s life.
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Slide show featuring students from CAPA, Pittsburgh’s creative and performing arts school, on a recent visit to Sampsonia Way, the street that houses City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi arrested in Iran and taken to Evin Prison, which is notorious for its political prisoners’ wing. Her passport confiscated, Mohammadi was unable to attend the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Ai Weiwei’s mother, Gao Ying, spoke to the press about the artist’s release last week after 81 days of unlawful detention by the Chinese Communist Party. Here is a transcript of the television interview.
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Tibetan activist Tsering Woeser documents Tibetan writers and teachers who have been arrested or imprisoned since 2008 by authorities in Sichuan province, China.
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A Zimbabwean writer exiled in Denmark, Tagarira is a staunch critic of Robert Mugabe. Here are two poems from his book Mugabe Must Go!, a concentrated political attack in the form of 87 succinct poems.
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In this interview South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin talks about the importance of everyday love, why we need to find our Moms again, and the way that her book blends collective and personal histories. In May 2011, Shin gave a reading at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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