Editorial cartoonist Sergei Tunin comments on the publicized presidential handshake. Will we see a thawing of tensions since the annexation of Crimea?
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The third selection from Al-Akhbar’s series ‘Former Syrian Prisoners: In Their Own Voices’ features a different voice, Syrian News Channel reporter Yara Saleh, who was kidnapped by armed groups opposed to the Assad regime.
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In this installment of the Freedom Chat, Belarusian journalist Michał Janczuk talks about the constant struggles he faces as an independent journalist under the Lukashenko regime, also known as ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’.
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Political cartoonist Hassan Bleibel depicts the departure from constitutional procedure in the process to elect a new president in Lebanon.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar on the “Sisi” presidential election, Egyptian women, and the beautiful art of dancing that serves as a regular backdrop to life events.
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Political cartoonist Hassan Bleibel calls attention to the Islamic rebel group ISIS and its deadly grip on a concentrated region in the middle east.
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Is this Footloose? Yaghoub Yadali discusses the viral topic and recent arrests of six Iranian students who recorded themselves dancing to the Pharrell William’s song “Happy”.
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