During French cartoonist Boulet’s visit to Pittsburgh, he drew cartoons of local attractions, including the Carnegie Museums and businesses in the North Side.
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As the centennial of Albert Camus’ birth approaches, Horacio Castellanos Moya looks at the legacies that can haunt writers, even posthumously.
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As the centennial of Albert Camus’ birth approaches, Horacio Castellanos Moya looks at the legacies that can haunt writers, even posthumously.
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French-Martinican writer and filmmaker Fabienne Kanor has been a writer-in-residence at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh for the past three months. Before returning to France, City of Asylum hosted a reading for her and Marvin Victor, another writer-in-residence. …
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The Great People’s Movement, founded by exiled journalist Elnur Majidli, is organizing social activism online to garner participants for public demonstrations, and calls for freedom from dictatorship, corruption, and tyranny, and for the release of political prisoners.
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On January 25 at 7 PM, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh will host a reading featuring two visiting writers from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program: Fabienne Kanor and Marvin Victor.
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Des pieds, mon pied (Some feet, My foot), Kanor’s short, experimental documentary is framed around her quest for a home, for integration—or as a psychologist in the film states, the quest to “lay down…the heavy bags” she is carrying.
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Copwatch Nord-Paris IDF, a website that publicizes incidents of police brutality and misconduct, has been blocked in France. The site has been charged with “defaming and putting at risk the safety of police officers.”
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A collection of past covers from Charlie Hebdo. The French satirical magazine, was firebombed just before a special edition “guest edited” by the Prophet Muhammad appeared on newsstands.
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As the internet’s role in free speech becomes increasingly prevalent, tactics to control the internet are growing more refined each year. This list of 2011′s current transgressors has been compiled…
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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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