Hamdy el-Gazzar discusses several individuals who have left the Muslim Brotherhood and written about their experiences.
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Bina Shah discusses the “Islamophobia” trend, in which media and other groups portray Islam-American relations in a negative light for money-making purposes.
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Writer Rewa Zeinati discusses censorship, Western misunderstanding of Middle Eastern literature, and the role of female writers in an oppressed society.
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Lebanon-based poet Mazen Zahreddine discusses why he doesn’t think in terms of nationality, publishing his works illegally, and working with Poeticians.
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Poet Jehan Bseiso discusses the importance of Poeticians, self-censorship in the Middle East, and her latest collection of poetry.
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A blank page in Pakistan’s International Herald Tribune leads columnist Bina Shah on a quest to discover what was censored and why.
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In this week’s From Egypt column, writer Hamdy el Gazzar discusses the use of belly dancing as a form of propaganda by politicians desperate to regain power.
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