Tareq Samin

Tareq Samin is a writer, social entrepreneur and human rights activist. He is the editor of the bilingual literary journal Sahitto. His literary works have been translated into more than 25 languages of which Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, German, French, and Italian are a few to mention. His poems, short stories, and articles have been published in more than 35 countries.

Tareq Samin received the ‘International Best Poets Award-2020’ from The International Poetry Translation And Research Centre (IPTRC), China, and the Greek Academy of Arts and Writing. He has been awarded ‘Honorable Mention’ in Foreign Language Authors category for his poem ‘Another Try’ in ‘The Prize il Meleto di Guido Gozzano Agliè’ poetry competition held on 12 September 2020 in Turin, Italy. In July 2021 he won Naji Naaman Literary Prize 2021.

Tareq Samin is a former fellow of the Martin-Roth-Initiative Scholarship. The Martin Roth-Initiative is a joint program of ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and the Goethe-Institut. As a Martin-Roth-Initiative Scholarship fellow, he was a guest writer at Goethe-Institut, Kolkata, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal.

In 2021, he was an International guest writer at Château de Lavigny International writers-in-residence, Switzerland. In 2023, he was selected for Hungarian writers-in-residence. Also, he was nominated for the Oak Institute for Human Rights 2023 fellowship in the USA.