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Sudanese activist and writer to visit Penn State Altoona

City of Asylum's Alphabet City building, located in Pittsburgh. Credit: Popscreenshot, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. All Rights Reserved.

ALTOONA, Pa. — Sudanese activist and writer RaMa will offer a reading of her work at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22, in Penn State Altoona's Slep Student Center.

RaMa is a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum and a research scholar at Chatham University. She has published two novels and a short story collection to great international critical acclaim, and recently completed a poetry manuscript written during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her writing has appeared in English, Korean, French and Spanish translations.

RaMa also continues to organize for democracy in Sudan.

Last Updated February 8, 2022

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