In this installment of The Freedom Chat, correspondent Nazeeha Saeed discusses the status of free speech in Bahrain and an unfortunate aftershock of the 2011 uprising.
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Orlando Pardo Lazo calls for solidarity to combat abusive attacks on Cuban journalists, such as the brutal beating of Roberto Guerra on June 11.
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Tarik Gunersel describes the rise of ISIS in the Middle East – “the armed organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” – and how this radical body is feeding into the Turkish PM’s move away from all things secular.
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Rachida Madani sees herself as “a poet armed with words to bear witness and revolt against injustice, social inequality, women’s conditions in a patriarchal society, men’s superiority complex, despotism, and a lack of freedom of expression.” In this edition of The Writer’s Block, Rachida spoke about language, womanhood, and reinventing Scheherazade.
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Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write Fellow, reports on the status of free expression in Myanmar and several burgeoning movements within this country in flux.
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City of Asylum’s writer-in-residence, Israel Centeno, on new foreign investment deals made with Venezuela and how shortsightedness may lead to indebtedness.
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In this installment of the Freedom Chat, Belarusian journalist Michał Janczuk talks about the constant struggles he faces as an independent journalist under the Lukashenko regime, also known as ‘Europe’s last dictatorship’.
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