For the second annual World Refugee Day, cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards illustrates the impossible position of refugees, trapped between violence at home and unwelcoming new governments.
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With tensions rising and Erdogan calling the Dutch “Nazi remnants,” The Netherlands is not about to give in to Turkish demands.
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Turkey’s Embassy has requested that the German government prosecute a comedian who insulted President Erdogan.
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Authorities use social media to track criminals and terrorists; dictators use social media to track and stop dissent; and “justice” can be dispensed by social media users at any perceived wrongdoing by public shaming of the culprit.
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In this cartoon, political cartoonist Jean Gouders (France) comments on the news that the Dutch Prime Minister, King, and Queen will be attending the 2014 Sochi Olympics, unlike some other heads of state.
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Sampsonia Way is thrilled to share Lucas Hirsch’s previously unpublished poem “No. 22” from his upcoming book Dolhuis: Natura Naturata (Madhouse: Natura Naturata) to be published by De Arbeiderspers. Translation by Willem Groenewegen.
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In this video, Dutch novelist and poet Erik Jan Harmens reads a poem at an event hosted by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. The first Dutch National Poetry Slam champion is author of In meningten, a poetry collection, and Kleine doorschijnende man, a novel.
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