Sampsonia Way’s new video series, “The Freedom Chat”, began on April 1, 2014 with Pakistani journalist Naziha Syed Ali. In the interview, Naziha offers candid responses to questions surrounding censorship and press freedom in her country of origin.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar provides a social commentary about Egyptian life and contemporaneous issues through an artistic lens in his column this week.
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Ethiopian artist Nayer comments on Europe’s dependency of Russian natural gas – a topic that has unequivocally gained momentum due to the recent crisis in Crimea.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar provides a social commentary on Egyptian life and contemporaneous issues through an artistic lens in his column.
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Yaghoub Yadali uses juxtaposition to great effect in this piece. These fictionalized stories subtly expose some of the real fears and struggles felt by authors from around the world.
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Fadi Abou Hassan depicts the Turkish prime minister after he blocked social media outlets following this week’s local elections.
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Crissy Rivas and Dave Sims provide a breadth of information about Cesar Chavez and the hitherto undocumented United Farmers Workers Movement (UFW) that he started in Texas during the 1960s. In this interview, Rivas and Sims talk about their new documentary “Voices of the UFW in Texas” and impart essential details about the UFW, the importance of women to the movement, and how conducting oral histories allowed them to augment current knowledge on the subject.
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