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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The new Freedom Chat with Marina Nemat highlights this exiled writer’s perseverance and unbelievable ability to surmount a lifetime of veritable obstacles.
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In the fourth segment of the Freedom Chat, Marina Nemat describes her experiences as a student during the Iranian Cultural Revolution. Marina also reveals her ebb and flow relationship with writing while she was imprisoned in Iran and afterwards when she moved to Canada.
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Exiled writers Marina Nemat, Omid Fallahazad, Moniro Ravanipour, Shahrnush Parsipur, and Roya Hakakian talk via Google Hangout about risking imprisonment for their writing, repression against opposition writers, the government’s crackdown on free press, and the condition of writing in exile.
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