Kiss for Peace Project creators Nima Dehghani and Behzad Tabibian discuss the importance of social interaction between the US and Iran, the difficulties of challenging the stereotypical image of Iranians, and the ways in which censorship has affected their success.
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Earlier this month Cuba loosened its policy on car sales for the first time in over five decades. But, according to Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo: “in a country where the highest salaries barely reach $40 a month, having enough money to afford the cost of a new automobile is something of a surreal dream.”
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Earlier this month Cuba loosened its policy on car sales for the first time in over five decades. But, according to Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo: “in a country where the highest salaries barely reach $40 a month, having enough money to afford the cost of a new automobile is something of a surreal dream.”
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Liu Xia, a poet and wife of imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, has been under house arrest since October 2010. In this video, secretly recorded in December, Liu reads two of her new works.
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As more fragments of news about a Turkish corruption scandal are released, journalists are fired, fingers are pointed, and even the upper echelons of power aren’t safe. Writer Tarik Günersel comments on the latest developments in Turkey.
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“Despite all sense of belonging and nationality, nobody can make you stay in a place that is dangerous and unfavorable to you.” Exiled writer Israel Centeno on the power of leaving and the pain of leaving Venezuela.
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Photographer Molhem Barakat is one of the latest of dozens of journalists, reporters, photographers and videographers killed in 2013 while trying to bring the news of the Syria conflict to the world’s attention. Here’s a list by Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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