In this exclusive interview, Pittsburgh writer Chuck Kinder talks about the Pittsburgh literary scene, his own writing process, and other Pittsburgh writers.
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In this exclusive interview, the award-winning filmmaker and Surrealist Jan Švankmajer discusses censorship, the history of the Czech-Slovak Surrealist Group, his most recent work, and his ideas on freedom and revolution.
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In this interview, political science professor Jonathan Harris talks about the documentary Putin’s Kiss, the pro-Kremlin Nashi movement, the limits of freedom of speech in Russia, and the future of political opposition and dissent in the country.
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On May 5 COAP will be concluding it’s Reading the World 2012 series with three presentations under the event Exiled Voices of Iran. The final presentation is a free concert from The Casualty Process, an Iranian electronic rock band in exile.
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Last year the Syrian political cartoonist Ali Ferzat was abducted and severely beaten by masked men as he left his studio in Damascus. Despite the assault, he has neither abandoned his criticism of Assad’s regime, nor his support of the Syrian Uprising.
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Exclusive interview with conceptual artist Shurroq Amin, whose latest show, “It’s a Man’s World,” was shut down by Kuwaiti authorities on the basis that the paintings were “pornographic” and “anti-Islamic.” Includes a slide show with a few of the paintings in the exhibition.
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Egyptian authorities banned the screening of a Cairo Exit, a film depicting a love story between a Muslim man and Coptic Christian woman. Hesham Issawi’s film was slated to be screened on February 27 at the Luxor African Film Festival.
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