Writer and Sampsonia Way columnist Bina Shah profiles Maajid Nawaz, a former member of the extremist Islamist group Hizb ul Tahrir who now promotes democracy in Pakistan.
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In this week’s Pakistan Unveiled Bina Shah continues discussing reactions to her novel Slum Child, which criticizes the treatment of minorities in Pakistan.
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Commentary on the case of censored film Despertar, a documentary about the cultural apartheid against Rastafarian rapper Raudel Collazo. His song “Decadencia” is a generational howl against the institutionalized intolerance of the Cuba.
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Three poems from Meena Kandasamy’s collection Ms. Militancy are presented to defy the recent persecution of writers like Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin in India. In Ms. Militancy Kandasamy retells Hindu and Tamil mythology through a feminist perspective.
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A comprehensive reading list of books on Tibet and Tibetan literature compiled by the Tibetan affairs website High Peaks Pure Earth.
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In this interview, Liao Yiwu talks to Maxine Case about his books, his struggles with the Chinese government, and related a few anecdotes about people on the fringe of Chinese society that he has interviewed and whose stories he had recorded.
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Journalist John Carlin has heard stories of poverty, injustice, and hope from people in countries such as El Salvador, Nicaragua, Mexico, and South Africa. However, it is the story of the Rohingyas of Burma that he finds the most tragic. In this interview he explains why.
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