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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MinnPost’s journalists are out in the community to report on the things that are happening in Minnesota. Your support right now will help fund their work AND keep our news paywall-free. Hussein ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

In September, Somalia established its first stable central government in decades. Professor Ahmed Ismail Samatar says the new president is facing "heavy challenges" Samatar is a professor at ...