Wed Nov 4 · 5:00pm
Power to the Words. In Conversation with Amir Issaa
Amir Issaa, a Roman rapper, author and educator, is in conversation under the name of Power to the Words, the rap-writing workshop he founded to take on stereotypes and discrimination in Italian schools. The son of an Egyptian father and an Italian mother, he co-founded the Rome Zoo collective; his memoir Vivo per questo, published in English as This Is What I Live For, won the MLA's Lois Roth Award.