Democracy Now interview with former freelancer at the New York Times, Natasha Lennard, who helped the newspaper cover the initial Occupy protests. Lennard wrote a piece for Salon.com title “Why I Quit the Mainstream Media.”
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Reporters Without Borders reiterates its concern about the fate of journalists and bloggers who have disappeared or who have been kidnapped over the course of the past nine months of protests against Bashar Al-Assad’s government.
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Hind Shoufani is the author of two volumes of poetry, More Light Than Death Could Bear (2007) and Inkstains on the Edge of Light (2010). She was a featured poet at City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s annual Jazz Poetry Concert.
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An exchange between Pittsburgh poet Terrance Hayes and Flemish novelist Paul Mennes. The writers were the inaugural authors in a new city-to-city “writer residency exchange” between City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and Het Beschrijf of Brussels.
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Abdel Fattah was arrested last week after being accused of instigating clashes between military forces and Coptic Christians nearly a month ago at the state television building, Maspeero.
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