In this week’s column, author Tarik Gunersel writes about literary and social media crackdowns as well as the recent challenges to religious freedom under Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Iranian writer Moniru Ravanipur talks about overcoming the censorship inside of her, being a Gothic writer, and the difficulties of translation.
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This week Israel Centeno writes about the protests sweeping Venezuela, Maduro’s reaction, and how Chávez’s presidency sowed the seeds for the current environment of hate and violence.
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What can happen to individuals and communities once you let them tell their stories? Joanna Wheeler presents the changes she saw and recorded while encouraging people in Bosnia and Herzegovina to speak out.
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Cartoonist Makhmud Eshonkulov (Uzbekistan) notes the military’s increasing power in Egypt.
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Mustafa Haji Abdinur works as correspondent for Agence-France-Presse in Mogadishu and is founder and editor-in-chief of the independent station Radio Simba. He spoke with IFEX about why he feels like a “dead man walking,” and what he thinks can be done to tackle impunity in his country.
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In this segment of The Writer’s Block, Manuel Gonzales, author of The Miniature Wife and Other Tales talks about genre classification, why he writes better when stressed, and his work with the Austin Bat Cave.
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