The Venezuelan state media under President Hugo Chávez, says veteran journalist Gregorio Salazar, seeks to establish ‘information hegemony’ by systematically closing private media outlets and using hacking and phone tapping to intimidate the media, dissidents and the opposition.
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Israeli-Palestinian actor Juliano Mer-Khamis, killed in April 2011, founded the Freedom Theatre, a theater of resistance that continues to fight for cultural freedom in Palestine.
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In this interview, Democracy Now correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous talks about the nature of reporting from Tahrir Square, the role his nationality plays in covering the uprisings, and how reporting in Cairo has changed over the course of the uprisings.
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Drug trafficking, and the violence it engenders, is Guatemala’s latest threat to freedom of speech. In her exclusive letter for Sampsonia Way, elPeriódico’s Claudia Méndez Arriaza uses her inside-the-newsroom perspective to compare the risk of being a journalist today with the risks of reporting during Guatemala’s bloody civil war.
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Editorial cartoonists talk about their careers and challenges. Featuring Tony Namate (Zimbabwe), Alfredo Pong (Cuba), Pedro León Zapata (Venezuela), Aw Pi Kyeh (Burma), Jonathan Shapiro aka Zapiro (South Africa).
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Sala Udin sits down with poet and activist Amiri Baraka to discuss politics, the future of black art, and the consequences of making political art in America. Their lively conversation is sprinkled with personal memories, sharp political commentary and humor.
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The Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP) — a series of online writer’s workshops run remotely by women writers based in America — allows Afghan women a forum to express and record their experiences in poems, essays and commentary without “the filter of their men and media.”
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At salon-style readings, City of Asylum/ Pittsburgh hosts international writers like Iranian novelist Shahriar Mandanipour to read for the Northside community.
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Woeser’s online journalism has earned her more than awards and international recognition; it’s also earned her harassment and constant surveillance by the Chinese government. Undeterred, she continues to write, motivated by her desire to share the truth about today’s Tibet with the world.
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Judith Torrea is a Spanish journalist living in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, a city devastated by battles between drug cartels and the “war” that President Felipe Calderon declared against them in 2008. Ciudad Juárez has been called one of the …
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Sampsonia Way's companion guide to City of Asylum’s Exiled Voice of China and Tibet literary event, featuring standout pieces from its three year coverage of exiled and persecuted writers. READ
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