Last October, Hamdy El-Gazzar wrote about Karam Saber, an Egyptian writer who was sentenced to five years in prison for “contempt- and defamation of religion” in his short story collection, Where is God. On March 11, the Beba Misdemeanour Court in Beni Sueif upheld this sentence.
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In this week’s column Yaghoub Yadali talks about the construction, danger, and humanity of Iranian heroes, past and present.
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In this piece cartoonist Sergei Tunin (Russia) notes the withdrawal of attendance from the 2014 G8 summit in Sochi, Russia.
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What kind of literature might emerge in Burma, post-censorship? James Byrne, co-editor of the Burmese poetry anthology Bones Will Crow, reports on how government reforms are changing the literary landscape for writers and publishers, and how the rosy future of Burmese literature is really just a “surface reality.”
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In this cartoon Lai Lorne (Burma) contemplates the future of the Irrawaddy River if the Myitsone dam is completed.
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In February Manuel Gonzales came to City of Asylum Pittsburgh to read from his collection of short stories, The Miniature Wife and Other Tales. In this exclusive video he reads the grisly and hilarious “Cash to a Killing.”
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French author Laurent Binet visited City of Asylum in November 2013 to read from his novel HHhH. Binet also sat down with Sampsonia Way to discuss his historical novel, objectivity, and his distaste for current French literature.
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