Reposted by Samiha MatinThe Sierra Nevada Review @sierranevadareview.com · 09/05/2026Read Samiha Matin’s @sammatin.bsky.social story, “How To Be a Good Muslim Roommate,” at www.sierranevadareview.com/samiha-matin... 011
Reposted by Samiha MatinAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/03/2025Israel’s renewed deadly Gaza attacks have continued for a ninth straight day, killing dozens of Palestinians, as the US says more than 140,000 people have been displaced since last week. Read here: aje.io/u0jdmo 1116178
Reposted by Samiha MatinPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/202527 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky 141314741
Reposted by Samiha MatinPrem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown. 13893986559
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 16/03/2025The insane levels of Islamophobia across the world—it keeps escalating. 000
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025A very valuable document about the deeply violent human rights violations and abuses that occurred in Bangladesh last year during the protests of July and August: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...ohchr.org 000
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Why does my writing drastically change within the span of a few months? 000
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Ramadan Kareem! My short story "How to Be a Good Muslim Roommate" is out now, judiciously edited by the brilliant Sierra Nevada Review. www.sierranevadareview.com/sam-matinsierranevadareview.comHow to Be a Good Muslim Roommate | Sam Matin — Sierra Nevada Review 011
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Why does it take so long to write, finish, and perfect something? It's a never-ending trial... 000
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I am almost done—almost done—almost done with the last research paper of my life. Almost there, aaargh! 010
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 24/01/2025Why doesn't any newspaper or magazine publish my pro-Palestine (as always) op-ed? 000
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025When will Elif Batuman's The Idiot and Either/Or get turned into movies or shows so I can watch them recurrently for many, many summers and winters? 000
Reposted by Samiha MatinMitch James @mitchjamesauthor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I admire the dichotomy in education highlighted by @sammatin.bsky.social in this interview. Best read alongside the story, "People of Color Monologue," which to me is a politically charged piece that suggests that with love there's hope. tinyurl.com/yvddv6dctinyurl.comSmoke & Mirrors with Sam Matin - SmokeLong QuarterlyNadiya is from Detroit while Ali is Arab and Persian and Areeba is Bangladeshi. How important was it for you to choose characters who might not come from the same geographic area or ethnicity but shar... 111
Samiha Matin @sammatin.bsky.social · 16/12/2024So happy that my story, inspired by community resilience and the Monsoon Revolution 2024, is published on December 16, the Victory Day for Bangladesh after nine months of genocide in 1971. Incredibly thankful to SmokeLong Quarterly for being the only magazine to publish this! 172
