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Two Swedish Journalists Found Guilty of “Supporting Terrorism”
Swedish journalists Johann Persson and Martin Schibbye have been found guilty of “supporting terrorism” by an Ethiopian court. More
Artists Declare State of Emergency in Belarus
An appeal to: Baroness Cathy Ashton, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron, Polish President Bronis?aw Komorowski, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, U.S. President Barack Obama, Spanish… More
Dialogues with Imaginary Partners
Readers should not expect straightforward autobiographical narrative, however, but a work in the symbolist mode, in which the semantic range of words is extended. More
Malcolm C. Lyons with Ursula Lyons: Mesmeric Force
In real terms throughout the Arab world, the reciters of such tales were concerned not with life but livelihood, for their audiences had to he encouraged to return, night… More
Selected Poems
The rainy season is a league away traveling / at the speed of an era. The cloud formation / does not dissolve as I remove my eyes / from… More
PEN Appeal: Khadzhimurad Kamalov
December 19, 2011 President of the Russian Federation Mr. Dmitry Medvedev Kremlin Moscow Russia Fax: +7 095 206 5173 Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Mr. Chaika Yuri Yakovlevich Ishaya Dmitrovka 1 a… More
Václav Havel: Constant Champion for Freedom of Expression
Václav Havel, dissident playwright and poet, honorary president of Czech PEN, and statesman, who died on December 18, 2011 at age 75, will be remembered by all at PEN… More
Leading Journalist Khadzhimurad Kamalov Assassinated
Prominent journalist and newspaper founder Khadzhimurad Kamalov was gunned down by a masked assailant as he was leaving the offices of his newspaper on December 15, 2011, in Dagestan. More
Memories of the Cowshed
We numbered more than a hundred, but not one of us dared breach the unwritten rule against holding our heads up, thereby inviting a well-aimed kick or heavy blow… More
What Is Left Unwritten
Texts and images of millennia past affect us without our notice all the time. Their cultural residue is the foundation upon which we stand, yet we often fail to… More
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