Ithaca City of Asylum
Providing refuge for persecuted writers and artists since 2001
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2018 Seasons Greetings from ICORN
Year-end news from our friends and fellow cities of refuge at International Cities of Refuge Network: 2018 is coming towards an end and we look back at many achievements in our common work to advance freedom of expression, defend democratic…
Read MoreThe Guardians: TIME honors journalists in 2018
Journalists made the cover of TIME as a collective Person of the Year, 2018. The December 24 cover story featured journalists who endeavored to keep telling the truth during a year of increased violence, censorship, and dismissal around the world….
Read MoreParting Thoughts
Interning at ICOA this semester has been eye opening. I am a Culture and Communications major at Ithaca College with a Gender Studies minor, a concentration in Urban Anthropology, and a passion for writing. Though I’m a strong advocate for…
Read MoreJamal Khashoggi stands for many more silenced journalists
Jamal Khashoggi: The name of this Saudi journalist, who wrote for the Washington Post and had been residing in the US, has headlined the news this month after he disappeared into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Political circumstances have…
Read MoreExiled writers: display at Buffalo Street Books
Ithaca City of Asylum supports writers whose works are suppressed, whose lives are threatened, whose cultures are vanishing, and whose languages are endangered. Many writers in today’s world find themselves in this position–but being persecuted for the written word is…
Read MoreStories from Jos, Nigeria
Thank you to everyone who attended Voices of Freedom 2018 last night, October 4, at Buffalo Street Books. Kanchana Ugbabe, Writer at Risk in Residence at Fordham University, shared stories of the current violence and division in her long-time home…
Read MoreIthaca City of Asylum on WRFI Friday, Sept. 7, 4-5 p.m.
Ithaca City of Asylum will get some air time Friday, Sept. 7, 4-5 p.m. on the Human Rights and Social Justice Program on WRFI 88.1 FM. Board members Edward Hower and Kate Blackwood will have a conversation with host Ute…
Read MoreFinding Asylum: Ithaca City of Asylum’s first short-term writer in residence
Short-term writer-in-residence for Ithaca City of Asylum Raad Rahman will lead lectures and public readings through May 9. She will present a seminar at Cornell’s South Asia Program on Monday, April 23 at 12:15 p.m. in G08 Uris Hall. During…
Read MoreDissident Bangladeshi writer visits Ithaca April 8-May 9
Raad Rahman, a journalist, novelist, essayist and human rights advocate from Bangladesh, will be in Ithaca from April 8 to May 9 as a writer-in-residence with Ithaca City of Asylum (ICOA). She will meet with Cornell students and faculty and present…
Read MoreIthaca Out Loud Performers & Audio
On September 27, 2017, Ithaca City of Asylum hosted “Ithaca Out Loud,” an evening of literature and theater at the Tompkins County Public Library. Six Ithaca actors brought the work of six Ithaca authors to life with dramatic readings. Enjoy…
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