Rachida Madani sees herself as “a poet armed with words to bear witness and revolt against injustice, social inequality, women’s conditions in a patriarchal society, men’s superiority complex, despotism, and a lack of freedom of expression.” In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Rachida spoke about language, womanhood, and reinventing Scheherazade.
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Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write Fellow, reports on the status of free expression in Myanmar and several burgeoning movements within this country in flux.
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City of Asylum’s writer-in-residence, Israel Centeno, on new foreign investment deals made with Venezuela and how shortsightedness may lead to indebtedness.
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Editorial cartoonist Sergei Tunin comments on the publicized presidential handshake. Will we see a thawing of tensions since the annexation of Crimea?
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The third selection from Al-Akhbar’s series ‘Former Syrian Prisoners: In Their Own Voices’ features a different voice, Syrian News Channel reporter Yara Saleh, who was kidnapped by armed groups opposed to the Assad regime.
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In this installment of the Freedom Chat, Belarusian journalist Michał Janczuk talks about the constant struggles he faces as an independent journalist under the Lukashenko regime, also known as ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’.
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Political cartoonist Hassan Bleibel depicts the departure from constitutional procedure in the process to elect a new president in Lebanon.
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