A blank page in Pakistan’s International Herald Tribune leads columnist Bina Shah on a quest to discover what was censored and why.
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This week: free speech at U.S. universities, Internet regulations to be discussed at the ITU, and Iranian writers call for an end to book censorship.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh visiting writer Vijay Nair discusses the absurdity he sees in the recent arrests of two Indian women for their comments on Facebook.
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This week: Bahraini activist Zanib Alkhawaja profiled, Julian Assange speaks to Democracy Now!, and impacts of government censorship on literary expression.
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Tienchi Martin-Liao describes the extreme security measures in place during the 18th Party Congress, including increased surveillance of “enemies of the state.”
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This week: the CCP blocks news sites for the 18th Party Congress, Tibetan self-immolations continue in China, and an interview with poet/ activist Amiri Baraka.
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City of Asylum/Pittsburgh visiting writer Vijay Nair examines the literary careers of two Urdu writers: Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto.
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