Samiha Matin
sammatin.bsky.social
Samiha Matin
@sammatin.bsky.social
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Ramadan 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-matin
How to Be a Good Muslim Roommate | Sam Matin — Sierra Nevada Review
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@smokelong.bsky.social XD The best magazine!!!!
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November 26, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Reposted by Samiha Matin
Israel’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
March 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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27 pages. Of babies. Whose entire understanding of what Earth sounded like was bombs dropping & people screaming at the sky
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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BREAKING: 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.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The insane levels of Islamophobia across the world—it keeps escalating.
March 16, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A 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...
www.ohchr.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Why does my writing drastically change within the span of a few months?
March 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Ramadan 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-matin
How to Be a Good Muslim Roommate | Sam Matin — Sierra Nevada Review
www.sierranevadareview.com
March 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Je suis déçu ... médiocres autour de moi
February 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Why does it take so long to write, finish, and perfect something? It's a never-ending trial...
February 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I am almost done—almost done—almost done with the last research paper of my life. Almost there, aaargh!
January 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Why doesn't any newspaper or magazine publish my pro-Palestine (as always) op-ed?
January 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
When 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?
January 23, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Reposted by Samiha Matin
I 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/yvddv6dc
Smoke & Mirrors with Sam Matin - SmokeLong Quarterly
Nadiya 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...
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December 18, 2024 at 3:58 PM
So 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!
SmokeLong Quarterly Issue 86 is live. Featuring the six finalists of the SmokeLong Grand Micro Contest (The Mikey) and four stories from this quarter's general submissions. It's wonderful.
www.smokelong.com/issue-eighty...
December 16, 2024 at 6:52 PM