Ever since Russian military troops entered Crimea, local media workers have been intimidated and harassed, offices have been broken into, TV signals have been cut, and outside journalists have been barred entry to the country, effectively silencing all but “one ‘correct’ opinion.”
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2014 Rhodes Scholar Courtney Wittekind discusses the roots of her interest in Burma, what it was like to visit the country in January 2013 after political reforms began to take effect, and how she translates some of the more difficult aspects of the Burmese language.
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Hamdy El-Gazzar pens a heartfelt ode to the Lebanese singer Sabah: “Sabah… is the spirit of the morning and its bright, chirping sounds. We used to hear her on our way to school, to work, and to the first girl we discovered that we loved.”
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Hamdy El-Gazzar pens a heartfelt ode to the Lebanese singer Sabah: “Sabah… is the spirit of the morning and its bright, chirping sounds. We used to hear her on our way to school, to work, and to the first girl we discovered that we loved.”
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Cartoonist Maarten Wolterink (Netherlands) raises concern for other former USSR states, following Russia’s invasion of the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine.
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Columnist Yaghoub Yadali remembers his amazement at discovering a story by Donald Barthelme in Iran, his difficulty finding any information about the author, and, years later, rereading his work as a fellow writer.
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In this cartoon, Alfredo Martirena (Cuba) examines the recent arrest of drug trafficker El Chapo.
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