In Ma Thida’s first column for Sampsonia Way, she writes about the lack of a collective dream in her native Myanmar.
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How does a country’s literature recover after years of mass censorship?
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Five Burmese journalists have been sentenced to 10 years in prison over a report about an alleged secret chemical weapons factory carried by the publication in January.
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Deji Olukotun, PEN American Center’s Freedom to Write Fellow, reports on the status of free expression in Myanmar and several burgeoning movements within this country in flux.
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What kind of literature might emerge in Burma, post-censorship? James Byrne, co-editor of the Burmese poetry anthology Bones Will Crow, reports on how government reforms are changing the literary landscape for writers and publishers, and how the rosy future of Burmese literature is really just a “surface reality.”
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We look back at the most-read columns of 2013, featuring contributions from Tarik Günersel (Turkey), Bina Shah (Pakistan), Khet Mar (Burma), Israel Centeno (Venezuela), Hamdy el-Gazzar (Egypt), Tienchi Martin-Liao (China), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and Yaghoub Yadali (Iran).
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Recently, racism and religious violence between Buddhists and Muslims have rippled through Burma. The crisis has spilled over to Facebook, where rumors and a widely shared video attacking Aung San Suu Kyi’s supposed support for Burmese Muslims have drastically turned public opinion against her and her party.
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