French author Laurent Binet visited City of Asylum in November 2013 to read from his novel HHhH. Binet also sat down with Sampsonia Way to discuss his historical novel, objectivity, and his distaste for current French literature.
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Cuban columnist Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo discusses the premiere of Oliver Stone’s “tribute documentary” on the late ‘Supreme Commander’ Hugo Chávez amid the protests and violence impacting Venezuela today.
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In this cartoon Jehad Awrtani (Jordan) notes the dangerous game Russia plays with its involvement in Syria and Ukraine.
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Tarık Günersel’s selected, paraphrased, and recomposed ideas from Kutadgu Bilig / Knowledge For Happiness, a 6500 couplet work written by the Uyghur thinker Yusuf Khass Hajib in 1070.
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The conclusion to Israel Centeno’s three-part series on the roots of violence in Latin America. In this final installment Centeno discusses how “distorted legends of heroism” and nationalism cover and cause the region’s inextricable cycle of revolt and “the prevalence of violence in all spaces.”
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Generation Zero: An Anthology of New Cuban Fiction editor Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo answers questions at City of Asylum Pittsburgh about the current state of Cuban literature, the complexity of the term “afro-cuban,” accessing the internet in Cuba, and why there’s currently a lack of unity among Cuban literary organizations and authors.
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Almost a year ago Ilham Tohti, a 44 year-old Uyghur scholar and lecturer, told Radio Free Asia he had the feeling that his “peaceful days are numbered.” On January 15, he disappeared.
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