Prominent Egyptian activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah has been jailed on charges of inciting violence. Abdel Fattah spoke to Democracy Now!’s Sharif Abdel Kouddous back in February.
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The Weekly Digest — a round-up of Sampsonia Way’s top stories — is your source for quality weekend reading.
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Lanka-e-News editor Sandaruwan Senadheera, who fled into exile a year ago, has been interviewed by Reporters Without Borders about the current state of media freedom and freedom of information in Sri Lanka.
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Sampsonia Way has been following the case of imprisoned Egyptian pacifist and blogger Maikel Nabil who has now been on hunger strike for more than sixty days.
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Turkmenistan has the world’s third most suppressed media, followed only by North Korea and Eritrea. However, the coverage of a deadly explosion marked the unprecedented emergence of citizen journalism in one of the world’s most isolated countries.
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For the first time this summer, City of Asylum created an exchange with Passa Porta, a literary organization in Brussels. It brought Paul Mennes, a Belgian writer, to Pittsburgh and sent Terrance Hayes, a National Book Award winning poet, to Brussels
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Novelist Gary Shteyngart answered six questions for us on Occupy Wall Street and shared with us some photos he took of the protests.
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