Journalist Judith Torrea has reported for 15 years on Ciudad Juárez, Mexico—a city she once said is being “being blown off the face of the earth” by the escalating drug “war” between the government and drug cartels.
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Iranian poet, journalist, activist Asieh Amini has investigated stoning cases and speaks out against social injustices from Islamic Republic of Iran. In this interview, she talks about her exile, writing, and the power of social media in Iran.
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In this interview, novelist Eduardo Halfon talks Sampsonia Way about Guatemalan violence, his writing, and his forthcoming book, Mañana nunca lo hablamos (Tomorrow We Never Discussed It).
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Journalist Judith Torrea’s blog, “Juárez, Under the Shadow of Drug Trafficking,” wins this year’s BOB Award for “Reporters Without Borders”, organized by Germany’s Deutsche Welle. Torrea’s blog covers drug cartel activities, government repression and police corruption in northern Mexico.
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A statement by Cuban exiled journalist and poet Ricardo Gonzalez Alfonso to the PEN International Writers in Prison Committee annual conference in Brussels.
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On March 3rd, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh conducted a reading of material from Burmese writer-in-residence Khet Mar, whose stories and poems were presented in Burmese, English, and Spanish. The reading featured Khet Mar, translator Michelle Gil-Montero, and poet and translator Roman Antopolsky.
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