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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This landscape still proves fascinating, if less of a threat than a century and half ago. Capitals like Tashkent and Samarkand ...

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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Samatar's lush sequel to A Stranger in Olondria is a story of revolution, religion, and electrifying love in four distinct voices. Tavis is close kin to the current Telkan, the ruler of the fantasy ...

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 ...

Yahya Samatar, the Somali man who swam across the Red River from North Dakota to Manitoba, is allowed to stay in Canada as a "protected person" and cannot be deported, ruled an adjudicator today.

The pandemic gave rise to hidden solutions that were direly needed by society. Healthcare workers Yasmin Samatar and Faraoli Adam found this to be true when they started Mawadda. Why Mawadda was ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP)-- Hussein Samatar, a Minneapolis school board member and the first Somali elected to public office in Minnesota, has died complications from leukemia. He was 45. Samatar played a ...

Minneapolis city leaders and residents came together Thursday to mark the opening of Samatar Crossing — a former freeway ramp converted into a crossing for pedestrians and bicycles and connecting ...