Political cartoonist Maarten Wolterink (France) on homophobia and the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
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In this in-depth interview, novelist Anita Desai discusses her childhood of writing and reading, her creative process over the years, her state of hereditary exile, and the complicated perspective on India and the West that it has afforded her.
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From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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Today’s cartoon comes to us from Osvaldo Gutierrez Gomez (Cuba). From Cartoon Movement’s project 360 Degrees on the theme “The police – part of the people or part of the power (and why)?”
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On January 9, 2014Amiri Baraka, poet, playwright and activist, passed away at the age of 79. A leading figure of the Black Arts movement, today we remember Baraka by sharing an interview Sampsonia Way published in 2011, after he came to read with Cave Canem at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.
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Satellite dishes, bootleg VHS tapes, uncensored films, police searches, laughter, and fear. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Iran has imposed and removed bans on just about everything – soon such actions, says the new minister of Islamic Culture and Guidance says, will make everyone laugh.
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In today’s cartoon Payam Boromand (Iran) comments on the recent spate of terrorist related attacks in Russia ahead of the Winter Olympic games in Sochi.
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In Rules for Translators, Sampsonia Way presents five selections from a series by Arabic Literature featuring celebrated and award-winning literary translators about their rules for translation. In our fifth installment, questions to translators from the Middle East Studies scholar Elliott Colla.
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InformaCam, open source, application, citizen media, press freedom, internet freedom, social media, journalism, witness, guardian project, Knight Foundation, Nathan Freitas, Harlo Homes, Matisse Bustos Hawkes, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, Google Hangout
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