“The Freedom Chat” transcript of Venezuelan journalist Andrea Daza Tapia is now available at Sampsonia Way Magazine. Several common threads connect Venezuelan writers that are featured in the magazine this week, such as their ability to influence movements from outside their country of origin or within it.
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In today’s curated cartoon at Sampsonia Way, editorial cartoonist Hassan Bleibel comments on the recent presidential elections in Lebanon. Through his art, he also critically portrays the March 8 Alliance, which was a ruling coalition in the Lebanese parliament until March 2013.
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Hamdy el-Gazzar describes the situation swirling around Omar Hazeq who was an employee at the Library of Alexandria. Omar was dismissed from his position and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for breaking demonstration laws and taking part in a protest during the trial of Khalid Said’s murderers.
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Yaghoub Yadali recounts the attacks last year at the Boston Marathon through his lens and he describes the intense emotions that gripped him during this time.
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Artist Zunar comments on the nature of president Obama’s recent visit with Malaysian Prime Minister Najib in today’s curated cartoons at Sampsonia Way.
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Sampsonia Way magazine reaches into the archives to call attention to Dutch novelist Tommy Wieringa and his recent accomplishments, including Wieringa’s book A Beautiful Young Woman.
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In this Exile Hangout, writer-in-residence Israel Centeno engages Venezuelan authors Liliana Lara, Juan Carlos Chirinos, and Juan Carlos Mendez Guedez. They reveal the realities of living overseas as Venezuelan writers and they expand upon what it means to truly live “in exile” within and outside their country of origin.
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