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Sampsonia Way opens new article series by interviewing Helge Lunde
August 2010
Sampsonia Way , an online magazine run by ICORN friend City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, are starting a series of interviews this fall, profiling writers who live in exile. To kick off this series, and to present the work ICORN does to protect writers, Elizabeth Hoover has interviewed Executive Director Helge Lunde. Sampsonia Way, the web magazine, is intended to provide the same shelter for writers and writing as Sampsonia Way, a Pittsburgh street lined with writer residences. Each defends free speech by protecting the people who actually do the writing and speaking. The homes provide shelter for writers; the magazine provides shelter for their work. We are happy to present an excerpt of the first interview in the series here at icorn.org, and look forward to following future articles.
Eurozine and ICORN join forces
August 2010
We are glad to announce that ICORN has formally associated with the renowned European net portal Eurozine . Eurozine is a network of European cultural journals, linking up more than 75 partner journals and just as many associated magazines and institutions from nearly all the European countries. Eurozine is also an internet magazine which publishes outstanding articles from its partner journals, with additional translations into one of the major European languages.
Creative Resistance - An Intersecting Networks Approach
July 2010
From July 10-15 ICORN participated at a gathering of leaders from the human rigts sector, art spaces, and artists' and culture workers' mobility networks from around the world meeting in Canada . 'This was a unique opportunity to get to know and work with other networks who's work is related to what we do.' says ICORN's Programme Director Elisabeth Dyvik. The meeting was called by freeDimensional .
Earlier Articles
- Committee to Protect Journalists releases Survey on Journalists in Exile - June 2010
- ICORN Guest Writer Philo Ikonya published in Germany - June 2010
- ICORN consolidates and looks forward at successful Frankfurt assembly - June 2010
- The European Parliament Debates Report on Human Rights Defenders Today - June 2010
- Denmark's first ICORN Guest Writer arrives in Århus - June 2010
- Two new books from ICORN Guest Writer Manal Al-Sheikh - June 2010
- New Book from former Guest Writer Gilles Dossou-Gouin - June 2010
- The General Assembly addressed by the Chairwoman of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights - June 2010
- Easterine Iralu's 'A Terrible Matriarchy' published by Shahrazad in Germany - June 2010
- World Press Freedom Day: Persecuted journalists find safe haven in ICORN cities - May 2010
- Kjell Olaf Jensen receives the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav - April 2010
- Haugesund, Norway joins ICORN - April 2010
- International PEN celebrates 'Free the Word' in London - April 2010
- Tunisian Writer Sihem Bensedrine is the new ICORN Guest Writer in Barcelona - March 2010
- Welcome to the ICORN General Assembly in Frankfurt - March 2010
- Malmö joins ICORN as City of Refuge - March 2010
- Three Danish Cities and one Island of Refuge Ready for ICORN - March 2010
- ICORN meets local representatives to discuss a Region of Refuge in Southern Sweden - February 2010
- Free Press and Free Expression Organizations to Iran: Release Jailed Journalists, Writers - February 2010
- ICORN at the European Parliament - January 2010
- Succesful ICORN Launch in Snowy London - January 2010
- New Book from ICORN Guest Writer Ayaz Khonsyawashan - January 2010
- Press freedom prize awarded to Israeli reporter and Chechen magazine Dosh - December 2009
- New Book from ICORN Guest Writer Hamza Zirem - November 2009
- Irakli Kakabadze among the recipients of the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award - November 2009
- New Book from ICORN Guest Writer Musa Mutaev - November 2009
- ICORN congratulates Kjell Olaf Jensen on being awarded Norwegian PEN's first Honorary Prize - November 2009
- Kenyan writer Philo Ikonya is ICORN guest writer in Oslo, Norway. - November 2009
- Miami first North American City to join ICORN - November 2009
- Conquering the Walls of Silence: New anthology with works by imprisoned and exiled writers launched in Vienna - October 2009
- ICORN Guest Writer Li Jianhong Blocked from Returning Home - October 2009
- The Danish Government has Decided to Fund Municipalities Wishing to Establish Cities of Refuge - October 2009
- PEN Urges Swedish Migration Authorities to Grant Guest Writer Anisur Rahman Asylum - October 2009
- ICWE Member John Ralston Saul Elected as President of International PEN - October 2009
- The Writers in Prison Committee releases guide to defending writers under attack - October 2009
- Bestselling author Cecilia Samartin visits Shahrazad - stories for life in Stavanger - September 2009
- 644 cases of imprisonment, attack and even killings of writers recorded by International PEN in first half of 2009. - August 2009
- Chenjerai Hove is awarded stipend for new book project - July 2009
- Er Tai Gao, former writer in residence of City of Asylum Las Vegas, publishes memoir. - July 2009
- Palma de Mallorca becomes ICORN City of Refuge - July 2009
- The ICORN Aministration Center have been granted addittional funding - July 2009
- Exiled Iranian Writers’ Appeal to the Writers of the World: Help us stop the suppression of the Iranian people! - June 2009
- Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) releases special report: Journalists in Exile 2009 - June 2009
- The Frankfurt Book Fair interviews Peter Ripken, Chair of ICORN's Executive Board - June 2009
- Norwegian Cities of Refuge participated in Marketplace of Ideas - June 2009
- Former Guest Writer Easterine Kire Iralu now has a website - June 2009
- Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs highlights support of ICORN as a central part of the Ministry's human rights policy - June 2009
- ICORN and Danish PEN win the Hal Koch award - June 2009
- ICORN at the Global Forum on Freedom of Expression in Oslo - May 2009
- Former Guest Writer Gilles Dossou-Gouin now has his own website - May 2009
- The 2009 ICORN Lecture: The Forgotten Fruits of Migration by Ilija Trojanow - May 2009
- Former Guest Writer Chenjerai Hove co-edits book about writing on conflicts in Africa. - May 2009
- Easterine Kire Iralu's novel A Terrible Matriarchy published in Norwegian - May 2009
- ICORN established as an international organisation - April 2009
- ICORN General Assembly to be held in Barcelona on April 21 and 22 - April 2009
- The “Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity” goes to Reporters Without Borders and Shirin Ebadi - April 2009
- New collection of poetry from Mansur Rajih - August 2008
- Iralu's Third Book Published in Her City of Refuge - December 2007
- ICORN meets with Casa Refugio - December 2007
- Shahrazad Begins. . . - November 2007
- A Beginning for Shahrazad - November 2007
- EU Contract for Shahrazad Signed - November 2007
- Danish Cities to Join ICORN - May 2007
- New ICORN City in Brussels - April 2007
- ICORN Guest Writers and Iraq in the News - December 2006