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    • Tienchi Martin-Liao
      Interview with Tienchi Martin-Liao
      by Silvia Duarte / May 20, 2013

      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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      by Olivia Stransky / May 17, 2013

      In this interview caricaturist Arifur Rahman discusses the most dangerous topic to illustrate in Bangladesh, being blacklisted, and self-censorship.

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      Art to Die For: Cartoonists at Risk and Their Defenders
      by Olivia Stransky / May 15, 2013

      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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      “The Hotbed of Imminent Danger”: Sri Lankan Writer Sonali Samarasinghe
      by Rachel Webber / March 25, 2013

      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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      Deniz Cil on Atila Özer, Cartoons, and Free Speech in Turkey
      by Olivia Stransky / March 22, 2013

      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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      Characters who are Looking for their Roots: Q&A with Eduardo Halfon
      by Sampsonia Way / March 15, 2013

      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
      Barlen Pyamootoo: “There is No Passport in Literature”
      by Olivia Stransky / February 26, 2013

      Barlen Pyamootoo reflects on his three-month residency with City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and discusses the transnational nature of literature.

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    • Mazen Zahreddine
      Mazen Zahreddine: Unsanctioned Writing from the Middle East
      by Sampsonia Way / February 21, 2013

      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
      Zena el Khalil: Unsanctioned Writing from the Middle East
      by Sampsonia Way / February 20, 2013

      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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    • Nigel Holt
      Nigel Holt: Unsanctioned Writing from the Middle East
      by Sampsonia Way / February 18, 2013

      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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