Nazeeha Saeed, who was imprisoned and tortured during the pro-democracy protests in 2011, discusses the state of journalism in Bahrain and her struggle for justice in this edition of The Freedom Chat.
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Rachida Madani sees herself as “a poet armed with words to bear witness and revolt against injustice, social inequality, women’s conditions in a patriarchal society, men’s superiority complex, despotism, and a lack of freedom of expression.” In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Rachida spoke about language, womanhood, and reinventing Scheherazade.
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In this installment of the Freedom Chat, Belarusian journalist Michał Janczuk talks about the constant struggles he faces as an independent journalist under the Lukashenko regime, also known as ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’.
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AS220’s Bert Crenca leads a thriving and always buzzing artist-run organization in Providence, Rhode Island. In this interview, the artistic-director and founder talks about the maturation of AS220 since 1985, the many offerings of the non-profit, and creative placemaking.
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During this fifth installment of The Freedom Chat, Ukrainian journalist and novelist Andrey Kurkov – who writes for The Guardian, Time Magazine, and The New Statesman – comments on the status of press freedom and Russian propaganda impacting the Ukrainian media.
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In the fifth interview of our series “Cultivating Latino Arts” filmmaker Ray Santisteban talks about the roots of disenfranchisement, the FBI’s history of repression, and how a coalition of some of Chicago’s poorest, least-educated groups changed the future of national politics.
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Orlando Graves Bolaños, Deputy Director of Education at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, talks about the importance of growing artistic programs that serve a diverse audience and the value of continual engagement.
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