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	<title>Sampsonia Way Magazine</title>
	
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	<description>A magazine about writer's in exile.</description>
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		<title>Evaluating Asylum Seekers: Physicians For Human Rights’ Asylum Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sampsonia Way</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sampsonia Way presents a series that compiles the experiences of physicians who donate their time to The Asylum Network of Physicians for Human Rights.]]></description>
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<p> <em>Sampsonia Way</em> presents a series that compiles the experiences of physicians who donate their time to <a href="http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/asylum/asylum-network.html">The Asylum Network of Physicians for Human Rights</a>.  </p>
<p>PHR&#8217;s Asylum Network is a community of hundreds of health professionals who offer pro bono forensic psychological and physical evaluations to document evidence of torture and persecution for men, women, and children fleeing danger in their home countries.</p>
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<h3 style="margin:0 !important;">Evaluating Asylum Seekers</h3>
<p style="font-style:italic; color:#777777;">by Barbara Eisold, Ph.D</p>
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In this article PHR&#8217;s volunteer Barbara Eisold, Ph.D, explains what the organization does and recounts some of her experiences in providing evaluations for asylum seekers.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/blog/2013/05/01/evaluating-asylum-seekers-2/">READ</a><br />
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<h3 style="margin:0 !important;">An Interview with Dr. Eddy Ameen</h3>
<p style="font-style:italic; color:#777777;">by Rachel Webber</p>
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In this interview Dr. Ameen discusses the process of evaluating asylum seekers, the symptoms of trauma that they face, and what the average person can do to help those in exile. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/blog/2013/05/07/physicians-for-human-rights-dr-eddy-ameen/">READ</a><br />
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<h3 style="margin:0 !important;">An Interview with Dr. Arno Vosk</h3>
<p style="font-style:italic; color:#777777;">by Rachel Webber</p>
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<p>In this interview Dr. Arno Vosk discusses the role coincidence plays in keeping asylum seekers alive, his method of assessing trauma via an individual’s scars, and the difficulties people face when seeking refuge in the United States.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/blog/2013/05/09/evaluating-asylum-seekers-an-interview-with-dr-arno-vosk/">READ</a><br />
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		<title>In the Name of Sovereignty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Israel Centeno</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fearless Ink]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel Centeno analyzes Venezuela's economic crisis, including how giving away their oil created an immediate dependence on Cuba.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4>The story of Venezuela&#8217;s accelerating economic crisis.</h4>
<div id="attachment_47572" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/venezuela_oil_culture_web.jpg" rel="lightbox[47545]"><img src="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/venezuela_oil_culture_web.jpg" alt="Venezuela Oil Culture" title="Venezuela Oil Culture" width="500" height="345" class="size-full wp-image-47572" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">PDVSA billboard reading 'Plaza Venezuela, the heart of Caracas is already pounding with water, light, art and life...This is also the oil sowing culture.' Photo: <a href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/gwbstr/398896963/#/'>gwbstr</a> via Flickr.</p></div>
<p>In January 1959, Fidel Castro visited Caracas and saw El Ávila—a proper mountain, not just a hill—as a fort from which he could deploy a continental guerrilla force that would travel across the backbone of South America, from the northern coast down to the Chilean Patagonia. Only a year before Venezuela had put an end to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/22/world/marcos-perez-jimenez-87-venezuela-ruler.html">General Marcos Pérez Jiménez</a>&#8216;s dictatorship by means of a civil movement, and with the support of leaders who were fresh from the military academy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3mulo_Betancourt">Rómulo Betancourt</a> had already become president-elect by the time of Castro&#8217;s visit. This visit would come to determine the future relationship between both leaders and both political projects (Castro&#8217;s communism and Betancourt&#8217;s “Venezuelan Democracy”), following the response that Betancourt gave Castro in the only meeting they ever had: Venezuela will not give away her oil; she will sell it.</p>
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<li class="img"><a href="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/category/israel-centeno/"><img src="/wp-content/themes/sampsoniaway/images/fi-israel-fbox-logo.jpg" title="Night Watch, a column by Israel Centeno" alt="Night Watch, a column by Israel Centeno"></a></li>
<li>From his lonely watch post Albert Camus asked who among us has not experienced exile yet still managed to preserve a spark of fire in their soul. &#8220;We&#8217;re all alone,&#8221; Natalia Sedova cried in exile on hearing of her husband Leon Trotsky&#8217;s affair with Frida Kahlo. In his novel <em>Night Watch</em>, Stephen Koch follows the incestuous love affair of David and Harriet, wealthy siblings watching the world from their solitary exile. Koch&#8217;s writing, Camus&#8217;s theories, and Trotsky&#8217;s affair all come back to exile and lead me to reflect on the human condition. From my own vantage point, my Night Watch, I will reflect on my questions of exile, writing, and the human condition.</li>
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<li><strong>Israel Centeno</strong> was born in 1958 in Caracas, Venezuela, and currently lives in Pittsburgh as a Writer-in-Residence with City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. He writes both novels and short stories, and also works as an editor and professor of literature. He has published nine books in Venezuela and three in Spain.</li>
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<p>This answer gave rise to aggressiveness on the part of the <em>caudillo</em> of the Sierra Maestra, and he began to interfere directly in Venezuelan matters. He didn&#8217;t stop, twisting and turning, until Venezuela, driven unquestionably by Hugo Chávez, literally ended up<a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/87665220/The-Logic-of-Extremism-How-Chavez-Gains-by-Giving-Cuba-So-Much"> giving her oil to Castro</a> at the expense of her ideals. Around one hundred thousand barrels a day, according to some sources. All in the name of a new relationship—the same one that the victorious Cuban guerrilla leader had tried to sell to Betancourt over fifty years before—based on “solidarity, fraternity and anti-imperialism.”</p>
<p>The future of many Latin American nations has been mortgaged in the name of the anti-imperialist fight and national sovereignty. Simply dispense with certain premises, such as an immediate dependence on Cuba and the sacrifice of the nations’ interests for Soviet interests—and, following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, for European tourism capital—in order to orbit within a geopolitical game, or other, darker games, practically at the level of an underling.</p>
<p>Bolivarian Venezuela has tried to reclaim her sovereignty by means of the same nationalistic and anti-imperialist rhetoric as the Castros&#8217; Cuba. However, the time has come to face facts: Never before has Venezuela been in such a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/world/americas/23venez.html?pagewanted=all&#038;_r=0">deplorable</a> and compromised condition, nor in <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324485004578427143534728124.html">so much debt</a>, purely in the interest of substantial capital resources. With the State acting as manager, the Bolivarian leadership has entrusted the future of the country, through the <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-28/china-lends-venezuela-4-billion-to-renew-fund-chavez-says-1-.html">China-Venezuela Fund</a> and other such arrangements, to one of the most aggressive, and perhaps one of the most savage, emergent capitalist economies. This alliance with China is not unique; the dedication to sovereignty—always in the name of sovereignty—has diversified in the same way that corruption and illegal businesses have diversified. Not only China, but Brazil, Iran, Russia, and the United States of America have a high-powered dynamism in Venezuela, a country that declares its sovereignty with grandiloquence, yet needs to burn money in order to uphold colossal levels of populism inside and outside its borders. To further illustrate the Venezuelan tragicomedy, it should be added that Venezuela imports 80% of what it consumes and, nowadays, is a country that&#8217;s in pieces, flaunting empty window displays devoid even of basic produce. </p>
<p>On such premises, and with considerable amounts of cash, the glorious revolution of the sons of Bolívar is being sold on the international market.</p>
<p>We no longer sell our oil; we pay and we get into debt with it. This is the high cost of the model of Bolivarian sovereignty.</p>
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		<title>The Prague Writers’ Festival: Bright Lights, Blown Out? (Arabic Text)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hamdy El-Gazzar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a 90% budget cut potentially heralds the end of the Prague Writers’ Festival, Hamdy el-Gazzar remembers his attendance in 2012.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_47478" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Prague_Writers_Festival_Movie_web2-e1368813546766.jpg" rel="lightbox[47695]"><img src="http://www.sampsoniaway.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Prague_Writers_Festival_Movie_web2-e1368813546766.jpg" alt="Prague Writers Festival Film Still" title="Prague Writers Festival Film Still" width="500" height="313" class="size-full wp-image-47478" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Still from the opening authors film for the 2012 Prague Writers' Festival. The year's theme was 'Only the Future Exists.' Photo: <a href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Obh_l8I72g'>tomato22</a> via YouTube.</p></div>
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<p style="text-align: right;"><img title="From Egypt" src="/wp-content/themes/sampsoniaway/images/fi-hamdy-fbox-logo.jpg" alt="From Egypt" /></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">عنوان العمود : مِن مصر</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">الكاتب: حمدي الجزَّار</p>
<p>أديب مصري، درَسَ الفلسفة، من أعماله الروائية: &#8220;سحْر أسْود&#8221;، و&#8221;لذَّاتٌ سِرّية&#8221;، و&#8221;كتاب السُطورُ الأَرْبَعة&#8221;، و&#8221;مَلحمة ثَورتنا&#8221;، تُرْجِمتْ أعماله إلى الإنجليزية والتركية والفرنسية والتشيكية، حاز جائزة مؤسسة ساويرس للأدب المصري 2006، واختيِّرَ في مشروع بيروت 39 ، أفضل الكُتَّاب العرب دون الأربعين.</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">موضوع الكتابة :</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">في هذه المساحة يُعنىَ الكاتب بشئون الثقافة والأدب المصري والعربي، وقضايا حرية الإبداع والفكر والتعبير في الوطن العربي، ويكتب بلا حدود، وبالأسلوب والنوع الأدبي الذي يراه، ومتحررًا من كل قيد.</p>
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<p style="text-align: right;">أن تدمر مهرجانا أدبيًا أن تُطفيء شمسًا</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">من أيامِ كتب إليّ الشاعر الأمريكي Michael March مؤسس ورئيس مهرجان براغ للكُتَّاب، بلهجة حزينة، آسفة. كتب إليّ بسطوره المنفصلة، الشعرية، التي يستخدمها أي كان نوع ما يكتب. كتب: &#8220;إن حربًا أهلية بدأتْ في براغ، لأول مرة نتعرض للرقابة السياسية، إنهم ينوون تخفيض ميزانية مهرجان براغ للكتاب بنسبة تسعين في المائة، بعد ثلاثة وعشرين عامًا، وثلاثة وعشرين دورة للمهرجان، شارك فيها نجوم الأدب في العالم، ستنطفيء شمعة مهرجان براغ للكتاب!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">قبل عام لم أكن أعرف مايكل، ولكنه كان يعرفني. لي رواية واحدة مترجمة للإنجليزية، ولست معروفًا كأدونيس أو سعدي يوسف أو بهاء طاهرأو صنع الله إبراهيم، هؤلاء الكبار الذين دعاهم مايكل لمهرجانه. مايكل أرسل إليّ يدعوني للمشاركة، مع كوكبة من كتاب العالم : &#8221; juan Goytisolo، Anita Desai، Hanif Kureishi،Duo Duo، Jerome Rothenberg، وغيرهم&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">بعد ساعتين من تصفح موقع &#8220;مهرجان براغ للكتاب&#8221; أيقنت أن مدير المهرجان، الشاعر، قد منحنى شرفًا رفيعًا بدعوته الكريمة، فالمهرجان كان قد دعا من قبل كبار شعراء، وروائيّ العرب فحسب.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">ذهبت لبراغ لأول مرة في حياتي فرأيتني داخل متحف مفتوح للعمارة، والفنون التشكيلية، والموسيقى حولى في كل مكان، والمهرجان رفيع التنظيم، كريم الضيافة، قد نفدت تذاكر قراءاته، وندواته قبل أسبوعين من بدايته. أحببتُ زحمة جماهير المهرجان والقُراء. على خشبة &#8220;المسرح القومي&#8221; قرأتُ من أعمالي، وقلتُ ما عندي حول مستقبل الإسلام، وغيرها من موضوعات أدبية وثقافية، وكنت أينما أنظر لا أرى سوى الصداقة والود في كل العيون، أما مايكل نفسه فكان شِعرًا يتحرك على قدمين، هذا الرجل اللطيف، وئيد الخطو، واضح الصوت، محدد الكلمات، مايسترو المهرجان صار الصديق الذي ربحته من السفرة كلها، أي أغلى ما حصلت عليه.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">طوال العام الماضي صرت أتلقى، كل حين وآخر، قصائد مايكل الجديدة، رباعيات قصيرة كتبتْ بروح شاعر كبير مرهف، ومحبة عظيمة.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">ومايكل لن يهزم فى هذه المعركة، لأنه لديه من الإيمان بقيمة وشرف ورفعة ما يفعل أكثر مما لدي أولئك الذين يفكرون بالرقابة والتسلط، وبالبنكنوت، والميزانيات، الكارهين لنور الفن، والإبداع.</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">لنك موقع مهرجان براغ للكتاب</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">-http://www.pwf.cz/rubriky/pwf-2013/</p>
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