Lebanese cartoonist Hassan Bleibel depicts Syria’s Assad and the predictably uncontested elections that will take place in June.
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Cartoonist Mohammad Saba’aneh comments on the protracted tenure of Algerian President Bouteflika whose leadership has been called into question due to his serious health issues and the seemingly fraudulent actions that ushered in Bouteflika’s re-election.
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Sampsonia Way’s new video series, “The Freedom Chat”, began on April 1, 2014 with Pakistani journalist Naziha Syed Ali. In the interview, Naziha offers candid responses to questions surrounding censorship and press freedom in her country of origin.
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French author Laurent Binet visited City of Asylum in November 2013 to read from his novel HHhH. Binet also sat down with Sampsonia Way to discuss his historical novel, objectivity, and his distaste for current French literature.
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Nearly two years after dismantling its Mexican American Studies program and banning over fifty books, the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) has voted to allow seven books back into the curriculum.
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For the last four years, Monterey Street in Pittsburgh’s Mexican War Streets neighborhood has become a stage for “I Don’t Know What I’d Do If I Couldn’t Speak My Mind,” an open day-long poetry event showcasing dozens of writers. We speak to event organizer Adel Fougnies.
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A new amendment to the Offenses Code of Russia threatens the LGBT community. We interview Dmitry Kuzmin, an openly gay poet and publisher living in Moscow, about the political, cultural, and literary impacts this law could have.
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