With news of an American spy from the Federal Intelligence Service arrested in Germany, relations between the two countries may deteriorate further in light of this potentially invasive move.
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The Village Indian tells author Abbas Khider’s own story of exile. With elements of both tragedy and comedy, the following excerpt – Chapter 6: The Miracles – details the many “miracles” that allow Khider’s fictional protagonist, Rasul Hamid, to flee from Iraq to Germany.
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Bangladeshi and international media organizations protest for justice in the case of slain journalists Meherun Runi and Sagar Sarowar, and for safety of journalists in Bangladesh. Runi and Sarowar were working to expose illegal land-grabbing by a corporation at the time of the murders.
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In this interview, Liao Yiwu talks to Maxine Case about his books, his struggles with the Chinese government, and related a few anecdotes about people on the fringe of Chinese society that he has interviewed and whose stories he had recorded.
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Iranian filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi arrested in Iran and taken to Evin Prison, which is notorious for its political prisoners’ wing. Her passport confiscated, Mohammadi was unable to attend the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Originally published in Flemish in 1947, My Little War is a fictionalized account of Louis Paul Boon’s experiences during World War II. This is the first English translation of My Little War.
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