In this interview with Independent Chinese PEN Centre President Tienchi Martin-Liao, she discusses her career, censorship in China, and her enemies and hatred.
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In this interview caricaturist Arifur Rahman discusses the most dangerous topic to illustrate in Bangladesh, being blacklisted, and self-censorship.
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In a new series on the Cartoonists Rights Network International, we present an interview with founder Robert Russell on the dangers facing cartoonists today.
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Journalist Sonali Samarasinghe discusses free speech in Sri Lanka, government’s involvement in her husband’s death, and the risks associated with her writing.
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In this interview, Deniz Cil talks about Özer’s transition to cartoonist, Turkey’s controversial Ergenekon trials, and taboo topics for Turkish cartoonists.
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This Q&A with Guatemalan author Eduardo Halfon reveals his own story as an author and as the grandson of a man who survived Auschwitz.
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Barlen Pyamootoo reflects on his three-month residency with City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and discusses the transnational nature of literature.
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Lebanon-based poet Mazen Zahreddine discusses why he doesn’t think in terms of nationality, publishing his works illegally, and working with Poeticians.
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Zena el Khalil discusses how her poems in the anthology try to defy the status quo in order to push Middle Eastern literature into the global spotlight.
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Poet Nigel Holt discusses how poetry in the Middle East is “a game of literary Russian roulette” and the disconnect between East and West literature.
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