After the Arab spring revolutions, nothing terrifies the Saudi regime more than 140 characters on Twitter by a political reformist or anyone who dreams of a brighter future.
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An excerpt from Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard. Set against a backdrop of political uprisings, the novel follows Lakhdar, a young Moroccan, who becomes exiled from his family for his religious transgressions.
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Fadi Abou Hassan on the dropping of all charges against former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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Cartoonist Hassan Bleibel celebrates Tunisia’s first elections under its new constitution.
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Time and time again, the Bahrain regime has demonstrated its intolerance for any dissent. Activists like Maryam, her sister and her father know the grave risks they face, yet they continue to fight for freedom.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the contrasting treatment received by imprisoned Chinese dissidents and shares the personal accounts of Nobel Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo, human rights activist and lawyer Teng Biao, and the writer and blogger Ran Yunfei.
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Part Three of a series on the beauty and death Egypt now faces. “I was a burden lying up on the board, and they were walking around the arena with my legs and feet.”
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