“Despite all sense of belonging and nationality, nobody can make you stay in a place that is dangerous and unfavorable to you.” Exiled writer Israel Centeno on the power of leaving and the pain of leaving Venezuela.
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Photographer Molhem Barakat is one of the latest of dozens of journalists, reporters, photographers and videographers killed in 2013 while trying to bring the news of the Syria conflict to the world’s attention. Here’s a list by Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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As history looms large, tensions flare up between China and Japan. Tienchi Martin-Liao looks at the now infamous events of December 26, 2013: China’s celebration of Mao Zedong’s 120th birthday and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Yasukuni shrine, a World War II memorial.
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Political cartoonist Maarten Wolterink (France) on homophobia and the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
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In this in-depth interview, novelist Anita Desai discusses her childhood of writing and reading, her creative process over the years, her state of hereditary exile, and the complicated perspective on India and the West that it has afforded her.
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From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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From Hamdy el-Gazzar’s latest work, The Book of the Four Lines, 10 quatrains on Love.
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