The arrest of Ahmet Şık and Nedim Şener in March this year has put press freedom in Turkey under the international spotlight. CPJ’s Robert Mahoney sent written questions to the reporters in their Istanbul jail. Read their replies.
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Nepali journalist Deepak Adhikari profiles a family of Bhutanese immigrants who relocated to Pittsburgh in 2008 from a refugee camp in Nepal where they had been living for eighteen years.
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In this interview Allmond discusses the dynamic of playing trumpet in a 17 piece jazz band, which instrument sounds the most like a human voice, and the amount of rehearsal time needed to prepare for the Jazz/Poetry Concert.
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In this video recorded at City of Asylum Pittsburgh, Tommy Wieringa talks about writing on adolescence, taboo subjects, and reader’s reception of his novel Joe Speedboat.
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Amal Habani is the second journalist to be sent to jail for reporting on the rape of Darfuri activist Safiya Ishaq by Sudanese security forces. This government crackdown on reporters and activists is part of a larger anti-media trend.
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In this interview Uzeki talks about his involvement with Oliver Lake’s Big Band, naming his original compositions, and sparking the imaginations of his listeners. Oliver Lake’s Big Band performed in the 2010 City of Asylum’s Jazz Poetry Concert.
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On May 3rd South Korean author Kyung-sook Shin read at an event sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh and PEN/America. Here is a video of her reading from her novel Please Look after Mom in its original Korean.
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