Author Ko Ko Thett remembers Rugged Gold, a poetry chapbook series produced by the students of Yangon Institute of Technology, a university which was shut down due to student protests.
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In his column this week, Exiled Ethiopian writer Mesfin Negash dissects “territorial righteousness,” the idea that one has less right to citizenship, less information, less understanding, and less sympathy to national issues because one lives in exile.
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By the time San San Nweh was fifteen, she was a correspondent for three newspapers. Since then she has published many novels, short stories and poems and worked with Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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By the time San San Nweh was fifteen, she was a correspondent for three newspapers. Since then she has published many novels, short stories and poems and worked with Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy.
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“Is freedom of speech incompatible with the values that Muslims hold? Does art have its limits in the Muslim world?” In this week’s Pakistan Unveiled author Bina Shah focuses on The Innocence of Muslims and its effect on the Muslim world.
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In this interview author and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis sat down with Pittsburgh-based poet Bonita Lee Penn to talk about his personal relationship with the oral tradition, the founding of the Dark Room Collective, and the future of language and motion.
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Columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo profiles Cuban political graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado, who has tattooed his art on his body, transforming it into “a living cry for freedom, something unprecedented in the history of Cuban resistance.”
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