Literature written in exile contains unexpected bridges between what authors experience in their isolation. Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo examines the curious similarities between two banned books and the exiled writers who “created a fictional sparring of words with the Commander-in-Chief who drove them from their homeland.”
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Five Burmese journalists have been sentenced to 10 years in prison over a report about an alleged secret chemical weapons factory carried by the publication in January.
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“It is not a great time to be a journalist in America.” In this article originally published on August 21 at the ACLU, author Nao Yachot examines the ways in which the events in Ferguson indicate an ongoing trend of government attacks on First Amendment rights.
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“In 600 years, probably none of the 36 Ottoman sultans were so arrogant and excessive” as Turkey’s newly elected president. Tarik Günersel questions Erdoğan’s legitimacy in light of corruption accusations.
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“This art demonstrates the creativity of the young artist(s), risking it all to share the sentiments of their generation in Iran’s closed and heavily controlled environment.” Yaghoub Yadali examines the work of Black Hand, a dissident street artist using graffiti to make a political stance.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao profiles dissident lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who was released from prison on August 7, 2014.
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Ukrainian cartoonist Vladimir Kazanevsky on the dangerous consequences of Russian “humanitarian aid.”
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