Albert Samaha

@AlbertSamaha

Journalist / Author, "Concepcion" & "Never Ran, Never Will" / albertcsamaha@gmail.com / samaha.substack.com

Flatbush, Brooklyn Joined February 2009

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Albert Samaha @AlbertSamaha May 14, 2023

Spent Saturday at the Festival of AAPI Books, a perfect way to celebrate our heritage month. If you wanna learn more about how our diasporas took shape, my book “Concepcion” explores colonialism’s legacy thru the story of my Filipino family’s migration: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611521/c…

www.penguinrandomhouse.com Concepcion by Albert Samaha: 9780593086094 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books “Absolutely extraordinary...A landmark in the contemporary literature of the diaspora.” —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror “If Concepcion were only about Samaha’s...

Albert Samaha @AlbertSamaha 3d

This season, there are more NBA players from France than any other country outside the US. How did that happen? I went to Paris to investigate the basketball talent boom: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

www.newyorker.com How France Took Over Basketball France spent decades building a development system to cultivate the tallest and most talented kids. Now the best basketball player in the world is French, and its national team poses a serious threat...

Albert Samaha @AlbertSamaha Nov 3

4 months after Nolan Wells’s death, his loved ones still seek answers, while others in Ocean Springs prefer to move on. I visited the city to report on a tragedy that has fractured a community, sparked marches nationwide & left his family no closure: nymag.com/intelligencer/…

nymag.com The Family of Nolan Wells Still Wants Justice Four months after the Black teen’s unexplained death, his family and friends refuse to move on.

Albert Samaha @AlbertSamaha Oct 26

“Bracing themselves upon landing in a place they believed was wracked with chaos, they instead arrived at the dawning realization that they, and everyone they knew, had been misled.” My dispatch on Americans showing up to Paris for the NFL game: wapo.st/3WqQkV5

www.washingtonpost.com With little unrest in sight, NFL fans turn Paris into a tailgate Fans braced for ‘chaos,’ but the biggest protests had been moved to the city’s outskirts.

Albert Samaha @AlbertSamaha Sep 14

If Pacquiao’s story chronicles the desperation forged in the post-colonial wreckage, Eala’s embodies the ambition to vault into a world the former colonizers had built for themselves. samaha.substack.com/p/mabuhay-alex

samaha.substack.com Mabuhay Alex A new fan learns a brutal sport