The Obama administration is facing scrutiny for its role in the imprisonment of a Yemeni journalist who exposed how the United States was behind a 2009 bombing in Yemen that killed 14 women and 21 children. We speak to Mohamed Abdel Dayem of CPJ and investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill.
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Egyptian authorities banned the screening of a Cairo Exit, a film depicting a love story between a Muslim man and Coptic Christian woman. Hesham Issawi’s film was slated to be screened on February 27 at the Luxor African Film Festival.
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Self-described book smuggler Tony Diaz, nicknamed “El Libro-Traficante”, is set to launch a small caravan to bring carloads of controversial books into Arizona that were recently banned by public school officials in Tucson after the city suspended its acclaimed Mexican-American Studies program due to a state ban on the teaching of ethnic studies.
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Tsering Woeser, the award-winning Tibetan writer and blogger, has been barred from collecting the Prince Claus Award at the Dutch Embassy in Beijing and was issued a month-long house arrest order.
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Reggae singer/songwriter Juan David Chacón, better known as OneChot, was a victim of the violence he condemned in his video for the song “Rotten Town”. The video has been censored by the Venezuelan government since it’s release two years ago.
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The 7th annual Jazz Poetry Concert featured writers Sonia Sanchez, Israel Centeno, Khet Mar, Hind Shoufani, Alexandra Petrova, and Tommi Parkko, accompanied by jazz musician Oliver Lake and the jazz trio Tarbaby.
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Sanjay Kak’s film Jashn-e-Azadi (How We Celebrate Freedom), which is controversial for its critical view of the Indian military’s role in Kashmir, was pulled from a seminar at Symbiosis College in Pune, India, after protests by fundamentalist Hindu student group.
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