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PEN Appeal: Zainab Al-Khawaja

December 21, 2011 King of Bahrain His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King P.O.Box 555 Rifa’a Palace Kingdom of Bahrain Fax: +973 176 64 587 Minister of Justice and Islamic… More

Cleopatra

A goddess as a child, a queen at eighteen, a celebrity soon thereafter, she was an object of speculation and veneration, gossip and legend, even in her own time.… More

PEN Appeal: Martin Schibbye and Johann Persson

December 21, 2011 Minister of Justice Berhanu Hailu Ministry of Justice P.O. Box 1370 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Fax: +251 11 551 7775/ 7755 Minister of Foreign Affairs Mr. Seyoum Mesfin Ministry of Foreign Affairs P.O. Box 393 Addis Ababa Ethiopia Fax:… 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

PEN Appeal: Zainab Al-Khawaja

December 16, 2011 King of Bahrain His Majesty Sheikh Hamad bin Issa Al-Khalifa Office of His Majesty the King P.O.Box 555 Rifa’a Palace Kingdom of Bahrain Fax: +973 176 64 587 Minister of Justice and Islamic… 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