Hamdy El-Gazzar pens a heartfelt ode to the Lebanese singer Sabah: “Sabah… is the spirit of the morning and its bright, chirping sounds. We used to hear her on our way to school, to work, and to the first girl we discovered that we loved.”
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Columnist Yaghoub Yadali remembers his amazement at discovering a story by Donald Barthelme in Iran, his difficulty finding any information about the author, and, years later, rereading his work as a fellow writer.
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While Woeser and her husband Wang Lixiong were under house arrest, a delegation of foreign journalists was being taken on a stage-managed visit to Tibet. This delegation prompted Woeser’s to write about two similar delegations that had been taken to Tibet in 2008.
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Joshua Oppenheimer talks about his academy award-nominated documentary, The Act of Killing, which focuses on the Indonesian killings of 1965–1966. He also discusses interviewing the death squad leaders and the culture of violence that keeps the past hidden in Indonesia.
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Life is words in action, literature is action in words. Humans are about to destroy their spaceship Earth. Some of them are aware of this and they try to change the course of events. Will they […]
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Though Facebook has over 1.23 billion users around the world, these 10 countries have political leaders who don’t want their citizens to have access to the site, or who have banned it amid fears that it could be used to organize political rallies.
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Close to 99% of crimes against journalists and the media are committed with impunity in Mexico. Learn more about who is being targeted and who is responsible.
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