Hamdy El-Gazzar pens a heartfelt ode to the Lebanese singer Sabah: “Sabah… is the spirit of the morning and its bright, chirping sounds. We used to hear her on our way to school, to work, and to the first girl we discovered that we loved.”
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Columnist Yaghoub Yadali remembers his amazement at discovering a story by Donald Barthelme in Iran, his difficulty finding any information about the author, and, years later, rereading his work as a fellow writer.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo speaks about how literature is striving to break the limits of expression in Cuba, why Cuba’s new writers refuse to be a homogenized group, and how he selected the 16 writers in the new anthology Generation Zero.
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“Now death is again laying waste to those who are youngest and most free. It’s happening in Venezuela, where the army is killing peaceful protesters in the streets.” Author Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo on the protests in Venezuela.
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Cuban editorial cartoonist Alfredo Martinera comments on the steady rise in kidnappings and murders of journalists in Mexico and Latin America.
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A history of violence in Venezuela—bloodshed and cruelty, past and present. Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno continues his three part series exploring the roots of violence in Latin America, this week Centeno examines the Venezuelan War of Independence and ensuing civil war.
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Since November 21, 2013 – the beginning of mass protests in Ukraine – 136 journalists have been injured while carrying out, or as a result of their professional activities, according to data collected by the Institute of Mass Information (IMI).
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