In this interview with Meena Kandasamy, SujeethG speaks about his work, the importance of protest music in a revolutionary struggle, and hip hop’s ability to transform the meaning of the material it appropriates.
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City of Asylum Pittsburgh invites you to an evening with writer Horacio Castellanos Moya July 27, at 7:00 pm. Also read an excerpt from the novel The She-Devil in the Mirror.
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In this video, alto saxophonist Darius Jones talks about composing outside of a traditional 20th century musical structure and fans downloading his songs illegally, and the physicality of the saxophone and human voice.
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In this video from 2010′s Cave Canem reading, poet and Cave Canem fellow Colleen J McElroy reads four of her poems: “Military Woman Evolution,” “R & R,” “Fairytales,” and “Caught in the Crosswalk.”
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The documentary Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour, recorded before Ai’s arrest, provides cultural and political context to his provocative work, as well as a glimpse into the artist’s life.
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Syrian government has detained Omar al-Assad, a local journalist who contributes to pan-Arab news outlets, and expelled Maarten Zeegers, a reporter for NRC Handelsblad and De Standaard.
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Nery Jeremías Orellana is one of 12 journalists killed in the last 18 months in Honduras. A supporter of recently ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Orellana was a member of the Popular Resistance Front, an opposition movement.
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Hu Jia, a political activist imprisoned since 2008, was released by Chinese authorities on June 26, 2011. He reunited with his wife, Zeng Jinyan, a well-known activist blogger.
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Two poems from A Lifetime Is a Promise to Keep: Poems of Huang Xiang translated by Michelle Yeh. Huang Xiang is an exiled poet from poem and a former writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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Liao Yiwu, an internationally acclaimed writer best known for his work The Corpse Walker, successfully fled China on July 6th and is now free to publish again.
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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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