Hamdy el-Gazzar recounts the life of a pivotal and celebrated figure of the Egyptian feminist community, Fathiya Al-Assal, who passed away on June 15, 2014.
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Writer-in-residence, Yaghoub Yadali, explores the potential outcomes of a long-term agreement made between Iran and America in light of the rise of ISIS.
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Political cartoonist Yaser Abo Hamed highlights the silencing of three journalists who received seven year sentences in Egypt.
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“I never wrote poetry to clash with any side.” Mazen Maarouf, a Palestinian poet and writer raised in Lebanon, currently lives in exile in Iceland. In this interview, he reveals why he doesn’t write political poetry and how he approaches the translation process.
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“For those who never heard of him before, Ammar 404 is Tunisia’s Big Brother.” The Dissident Blog reports on the former fall, the recent resurrection, and overall pervasiveness of a government authority responsible for online censorship.
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Anne Derenne, French illustrator and cartoonist, visually conveys the new “untouchable” status given to heads of state as well as senior officials by the African Court of Justice and Human Rights.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao recounts this year’s June 4 vigil in Hong Kong and she counters the vacillation of a journalist who is seemingly “kowtowing to his patron”, the Chinese Communist Party.
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