September 8, 2025

Join the Call to Cancel PEN America at University of Minnesota

[Background image above depicts an Israeli strike on the Islamic University of Gaza on December 2, 2023, killing physics professor physics professor Sufyan Tayeh. Photo retrieved from the Andolu Agency.] **UPDATE The link to take immediate action has been corrected at the bottom of this caption ** On September 18, 2025, the University of Minnesota’s Office of the Vice Provost and the Senate Faculty Consultative Committee will host PEN America to lead a symposium called A Campus for...

September 3, 2025

Old Song: a New Poem by Nima Hasan

by Nima Hasan

I love you—
Force the city to hear it out loud.

August 16, 2025

Beyond Ruins: Exploring Architectural Nostalgia in Syrian Diasporic Art and the Resilience of Utopian Imaginings

by Sami Ismat

But the immense neglect and physical destruction of these places along the societal fabric puts doubt in whether the new free Syria, with its new and varied diasporic community, can reclaim a healthy and thriving society with a collectivist living philosophy. It is a challenge that requires utopian imagings as well as forms of expression and commemoration of the sacrifices and displacement faced by the people.