Amir Issaa (Egyptian-Italian Hip-hop Artist, Writer, Educator) was on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus on Monday March 3rd, 2025 during his “Potere alle Parole-Vivo per Questo / Power to the Words-This is What I Live For” US Tour 2025 (the tour includes also lectures, workshops and concerts at Berkeley, Stanford, the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, University of Illinois-Chicago, Stony Brook University, NYU and other institutions).
At UW-Madison Amir Issaa held writing workshops in Italian for students enrolled in Italian 102 (two classes) and Italian 203 (one class), a public talk (in English) entitled “Power to the Words: A Conversation with Amir Issaa” (with Prof. Grazia Menechella) open to all, and a presentation/conversation (in Italian) entitled “Vivo per Questo: Potere alle Parole” open to upper level Italian undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty. 
These events were co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian, the Center for European Studies, and the Italian Club at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the Italian Cultural Institute and Italian Consulate in Chicago.