Taxi, the newest film by renowned Iranian film director Jafar Panahi, won the Berlin Film Festival’s Golden Bear on February 15. The Iranian government has banned Panahi from making films for 20 years.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block exiled Iranian writer Shahriar Mandanipour talks about his writing process in exile, the catharsis of writing, and his routine.
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“I send all dried fruits to the soldiers before they rot / So it can fashion the tongue to speak.” Here are two new poems by Elham Malekpoor, an exiled Iranian poet and LGBT and human rights activist.
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This year, Sampsonia Way introduced The Freedom Chats, a new series that features interviews with journalists and other international media personalities who face censorship and repression in their home countries. Join us in reviewing the most viewed Freedom Chats from 2014.
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This year, we spoke to poets, journalists, filmmakers and novelists from India to Morocco, from France to Iran. We talked about revolution, the forgotten history of the United Farm Worker Movement in Texas, hereditary exile, writing as an act of defiance, and much more.
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When the diplomatic relationship between two countries, for whatever reason, is strained, sports and the arts ease tension.
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In this edition of The Writer’s Block we talk to Iranian novelist Yaghoub Yadali about his newly translated novel Rituals of Restlessness.
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