In his youth, Mohamed Samatar's magnetic personality showed no boundaries. Everyone was drawn to him, including bad influences. But after his father died in 2015, Samatar changed his ways. He cut off ...

Edited by Peter S. Beagle and Jacob Weisman. Tachyon, $16.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-61696-257-9 This excellent anthology showcases up-and-coming speculative fiction writers, many of whom have ...

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Sofia Samatar's duology of novels, 2013's A Stranger in Olondria and last year's The Winged Histories, took place in a mythic land of Olondria — a place where words are equal to religion, politics, ...

Salma Bile was interested in pursuing a career in medicine, but didn’t think she could become a doctor. “In my culture, girls get married pretty young, normally,” she said. Then, in high school, with ...

Hussein Samatar, a Minneapolis school board member and the first Somali elected to public office in Minnesota, has died of complications from leukemia. He was 45. Samatar played a prominent role in ...

Sofia Samatar was born to a Somali father and Swiss German Mennonite mother in a small town in northern Indiana. Passionate about languages, Samatar moved to South Sudan and later to Egypt during her ...

Yahya Samatar stands with Karin Gordon, executive director of resettlement for Hospitality House Refugee Ministry, just before the start of Wednesday's hearing. (Kaj Hasselriis/CBC) Yahya Samatar, the ...