MIT ‘Bans’ Student Over Essay - Sampan
Nov 22, 2024 · Attorney Calls Action ‘Chilling’ Threat to Free Speech. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has banned a South Asian American grad student from campus and is threatening to boot him from the university for an article he published related to pro-Palestinian protesting, according to the student and his lawyer, who calls the …
Review: Haruki Murakami’s ‘The City and Its Uncertain Wall’ Lacks …
Dec 6, 2024 · Sometimes it’s difficult to witness the precipitous quality drop of a great writer. In the case of Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami, the drop in quality is less disastrous than it is tedious. Murakami’s new novel “The City and its Uncertain Walls” comes six years after “Killing Commendatore,” itself an excessive mixture of perversity and magic
‘Imagine Yourself in My Place’: Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha …
Nov 4, 2024 · Perhaps Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha’s most threatening weapon against Israel in its relentless and devastating bombardment of Gaza is his pen. But that very pen could also be what puts him in the most peril. “I think the fact that I'm a poet and a writer, I should be killed maybe sooner than others,”
Korean Americans Celebrate Nobel Prize to Han Kang in Literature …
Oct 25, 2024 · Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024—the first writer from South Korea to be awarded this prize. Yet, she has “declined to hold a press conference, citing the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine conflict,” according to The Korea Times, citing a letter from her father.Korean-American software engineer Todd
Playfest 7 Looks at Generational Divide, Grief and AI Through Lens …
Dec 6, 2024 · Playfest 7’s show at The Foundry in Cambridge last month told familiar stories of dealing with grief (and landlords), stumbling over artificial intelligence technology, and trying to get a point across the gap of generations within a family. And the all-Asian American Pacific Islander cast did so with humor, poignant dialogue and resonant performances.
‘Palestine Is the New Vietnam,’ Says MIT Linguistics Professor …
Dec 20, 2024 · MIT professor Michel Anne-Frederic DeGraff has a long history as an expert in linguistics. His study in the field has propelled his career in academia at one of the world’s most prestigious institutions. His recent political activism, however, has gotten him in trouble with that very university. DeGraff’s supposed crime? Taking the side of solidarity
Some Immigrant Families Fear 2nd Trump Presidency - Sampan
Nov 22, 2024 · Central to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory on Nov. 5 was his harsh stance on immigration.Now that Trump is due to regain the presidency in January, anti-immigrant sentiment has dominated much of the news. Trump has pledged to hire 10,000 more border patrol agents—and it looks like the president-elect will hold true to his promise, as
Asian Community Fund Aims to Bridge Gaps for Region’s AAPI …
Jan 3, 2025 · When the Asian Community Fund (ACF) launched in 2020, it set out with a clear mission: to unify and empower the Asian American Pacific Islander community across Massachusetts.Founded during a period of heightened anti-Asian racism and in response to research showing less that 1% of philanthropic giving …
AAPI Arts Summit Inspires ‘Hope’ - Sampan
Nov 22, 2024 · Organizers of the 2nd Annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Arts & Culture Summit on Nov. 15 at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute in Boston say they see the event as bigger than enhancing the arts community itself: It’s about providing hope. “I think in times of uncertainty and crisis, people have always looked to
Kiyoko Murata’s ‘A Woman of Pleasure’Finds Agency in an …
Jan 3, 2025 · There’s a reason why some stories should not be told by people outside their world. In the case of Arthur Golden’s 1997 novel “Memoirs of a Geisha,” adapted into a hit 2005 eponymously titled film, the Orientalism whitewashing was in full flower. Golden’s novel, set in the late 1920’s, roughly 25 years later than the