This year, Melville House published Sánchez’s new book: Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth about Cuba Today. Unable to attend a literary event in New York, she sent a recorded speech thanking her supporters everywhere.
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The Indian Censor Board banned the screening of Leena Manimekalai’s film Sengadal. In this interview, Manimekalai reveals how her past shaped her artistic vision and the challenges plaguing her as she strives to retain an independent voice.
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Reporters Without Borders rates Pakistan 151 out of 178 in their press freedom index. A recent attack in the city of Peshawar, in which a suicide bomber killed one and wounded 8 journalists, is one in a long series of violent acts against the press.
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M. F. Hussain, the 95-year-old exiled artist also known as “India’s Picasso,” died of a heart attack in a London hospital on June 9. In this video Hussain answer questions about his life, work, and exile.
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Eknaligoda’s cartoons are critical of the Sri Lankan government, which has been accused of curtailing media freedom. It has now been over 500 days since Prageeth Eknaligoda disappeared while walking from his office to his home in Colombo.
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A Zimbabwean writer exiled in Denmark, Tagarira is a staunch critic of Robert Mugabe. Here are two poems from his book Mugabe Must Go!, a concentrated political attack in the form of 87 succinct poems.
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Since she was 19-years-old, Khet Mar has been persecuted by the Burmese government. These quotes and pictures summarize the journey of the current writer-in-residence at City of Asylum Pittsburgh.
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Clips from award-winning movies by Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, who submitted their entries secretly to the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival because they’re banned from making movies.
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In this interview with Sampsonia Way, Syrian poet Maram al-Massri discusses being a female poet in Syria, censorship, freedom of expression, social media, and the Arab Spring.
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In this interview conducted, Gioconda Belli reflects on the legacy of the Sandinista movement, her hopes for Nicaragua, and the state of freedom of expression under Ortega.
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Cartoonists at Risk and Their Defenders
Sampsonia Way presents Cartoonists Rights Network International, a cartoon-focused human rights organization, along with several of its affiliates and their work. READ
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