In an imagined monologue writer Hamdy el-Gazzar presents Egypt’s ongoing constitutional crisis.
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Sampsonia Way presents a series of excerpts from books recommended by our Fearless Ink. writers. The Halfway House was chosen by Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo.
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This week: Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan on when censorship is permissible, cartoonists face censorship in South Africa, and free speech in Kazakhstan.
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Despite a successful career, Indian playwright Mahesh Dattani struggles to deal with censorship, not from the government, but from his peers and patrons.
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Blogger Nay Phone Latt provided vital information to the outside world during Burma’s Saffron Revolution. This earned him a twenty-year jail sentence and a charge of “creating public alarm.”
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Khet Mar profiles blogger Nay Phone Latt who was sentenced to twenty years in prison for providing information to foreign media during the Saffron Revolution.
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In this interview Bina Shah talks about the media representations of Pakistan, the impact of Malala Yousafzai, and the future of women in Pakistan.
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A blank page in Pakistan’s International Herald Tribune leads columnist Bina Shah on a quest to discover what was censored and why.
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In this interview novelist Eduardo Halfon discusses the music in his writing, his nomadic nature, and his reluctance to distinguish himself from his narrator.
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Havana writer Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo expresses concern over animal abandonment and cruelty in Cuba, which he believes is a sign of “greater tragedy to come.”
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