The Constitutional court in Turkey ruled PM Erdogan’s actions illegal, after the two week period in which he banned Twitter. In today’s curated cartoon, Artist Osvaldo Gutierrez depicts the iconic social media symbol escaping its former clutches.
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January 31, 2014 marked the launch of Sampsonia Way’s first anthology Generation Zero: An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction. In this video, Pittsburgh’s Josh Raulerson (WESA) as well as American novelist and college professor Angie Cruz read from the new release.
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Artist Victor Ndula addresses the 2007-2008 Kenyan post-election violence in this cartoon, in light of the UN’s International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.
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Ethiopian artist Nayer comments on Europe’s dependency of Russian natural gas – a topic that has unequivocally gained momentum due to the recent crisis in Crimea.
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Fadi Abou Hassan depicts the Turkish prime minister after he blocked social media outlets following this week’s local elections.
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Today’s featured cartoon was created by artist Pedro X. Molina, which provides commentary on recent state-owned media responses to protests in Venezuela.
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In this Exile Hangout, Cuban writers including Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, Lien Carrazana Lau, Danilo Maldonado Machado “El Sexto”, and Elena Victoria Molina speak about an anthology of Cuban short stories published by Sampsonia Way. They nuance Cuban literary generations and how “censorship is creating new spaces” in current conversations.
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