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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In his column this week, Exiled Ethiopian writer Mesfin Negash dissects “territorial righteousness,” the idea that one has less right to citizenship, less information, less understanding, and less sympathy to national issues because one lives in exile.
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In this week’s Tea House Burmese writer Khet Mar profiles Maung Nyo Win, a painter who uses his art to preserve deceased poets, writers, and artists.
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In 2012, Iranian journalist Nazila Fathi talked with Sampsonia Way about her journalism, the challenges of reporting in exile, and her current project, a memoir. She will be reading at City of Asylum on Friday.
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In this weeks Tea House writer Khet Mar profiles Burmese journalist and writer San San Tin. In exile for over a decade, San San Tin is the author of No Time for Dreams, a personal account of the four decades leading up to the Saffron Revolution.
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Former poet laureate of South Africa Keorapetse Kgositsile and K. Mensah Wali, artistic director of Kente Arts Alliance discuss South Africa’s progress since the end of apartheid, the effects of exile on family, and the relationship between poetry and jazz.
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In this week’s “Nightwatch” Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno uses executed Russian writer Isaak Babel as a jumping off point to explore humanity’s long, complex relationship with Paradise.
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