Tienchi Martin-Liao discusses the case of Zhang Anni, daughter of a Chinese activist, who was detained by police and then banned by her school.
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Israel Centeno explores the rise to power of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro, “a man who has been molded in Hugo Chávez’s shadow and who has no limits.”
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Hamdy el-Gazzar highlights the Egyptian Sarcasm Society, a Facebook page that uses black humor to comment on political and social issues in the country.
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This week: political satire on the rise in China, Nigeria bans film on oil corruption, and a FOX reporter is threatened with jail for not revealing her sources.
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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 the past 20 years, 12 of the 21 Nobel Literature Prize winners have been imprisoned, exiled from their home country, or written books that were later banned. Several works by American novelist Toni Morrison appear on the banned books list.
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