In this week’s Ethiopiques exiled journalist Mesfin Negash reflects on the ways that Ethiopia – once home, sweet, home – has become “a bitter prison for the majority of Ethiopians, both at home and abroad.”
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In this week’s Tea House Burmese writer Khet Mar profiles Maung Nyo Win, a painter who uses his art to preserve deceased poets, writers, and artists.
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In this week’s column writer Bina Shah reflects on the public execution of Najiba, a 22 year-old Afghan woman who was killed for allegedly having an affair with a Taliban commander. Shah draws parallels between Najiba’s story and that of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.
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In this week’s Revolution Evening Post Cuban blogger Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo talks about the first cholera outbreak in Cuba since the 19th century and how the government is trying to keep it quiet.
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In this week’s Corkscrew novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya reviews The Civilization of Entertainment, a collection of essays by Peruvian author and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
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In this week’s Blind Chess Tienchi Martin-Liao shares the story of He Depu, a human rights activist and former political prisoner, who was recently forced by the Chinese government to take a vacation “in the name of stability.”
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In this week’s Night Watch Israel Centeno talks about the euphemisms society uses to limit free speech. “The purpose of exercising freedom is neither to reassert a consensus, nor to verify the truth of a bias, nor to impose a dogma.”
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