Sehba Sarwar founded Voices Breaking Boundaries, a cultural organization that crosses borders, sustains dialogue, and incites social justice through art.
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In the tenth installment of the Freedom Chat, we spoke to Alfredo Corchado Jimenez about the state of free speech in Mexico.
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An excerpt from The Gypsy Goddess by Meena Kandasamym, an experimental novelization of an uprising and massacre of agricultural workers in India, and a meditation on the impossibility of writing a novel.
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On July 17th, City of Asylum Pittsburgh presented Writers in the Garden, an annual celebration of local poets and the Northside community. Curated by Jim Daniels, this year’s featured writers were Craig Bernier, Leslie Anne McIlroy, Dave Newman, Wendy Paff, and Jamar Thrasher.
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Four decades after the end of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese government official makes a speech echoing the Red Guard’s ultra-leftist sentiment. Could “politics in command” be experiencing a renaissance?
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In the tenth installment of The Freedom Chat, we talk to award-winning journalist Alfredo Corchado Jimenez, who is renowned for his coverage of corruption and drug cartels in the U.S. and Mexico.
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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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