Bina Shah writes about her recent trip to China and about the perils and uncertainties of having your work translated in a restrictive environment.
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Rupa Marya, singer, songwriter, and guitarist for Rupa & the April Fishes, talks to Sampsonia Way about non-English music in the United States, her work on the U.S.-Mexico border, and her dual life as a musician/doctor.
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This week: Green Party candidate Jill Stein on censorship in US elections, the arrest of Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez, China censors Twitter ahead of Communist Party congress, Bahrain revokes citizenships, and new gag law limits press freedom in Costa Rica.
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This week, freedom of speech on college campuses, Turkey’s press freedom crisis, radio journalist injured in Somalia, and Ai Weiwei’s video censored in China.
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Independent Chinese PEN Center president Tienchi Martin-Liao reflects on Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan who has been criticized for his cooperation with China’s government and for advocating censorship.
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This week, China holds Ai WeiWei’s passport, Taliban threats to Pakistan media, and the film adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is released.
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In his latest column, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo asserts that depicting Fidel Castro is a crime by highlighting the case of arrested Cuban artist Yanoski Mora.
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