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Renovating Tradition
To me, Kezilahabi’s poems communicate that any understanding achieved has meaning exactly because it is temporary, idiosyncratic, and subject to change. More
Ragip Zarakolu Releases Public Letter from Prison
Writer, academic and publisher Ragip Zarakolu, who has been formally charged with “membership of an illegal organization," released an open letter from prison on November 2, 2011, through his… More
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq
Immediately, “infamy” became American code for “Pearl Harbor,” as well as code for Japanese treachery and deceitfulness—a stab in the back that cried out for retaliation and would never… More
Hocus Bogus
There is no beginning. I was begotten—just like you—and since then I’ve been lumbered. More
PEN Welcomes Peter Godwin and Clinton Ives Smullyan Jr. to Board of Trustees
The Board of PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, voted at their meeting on October 20, 2011, to appoint Peter… More
PEN Appeal: Ragip Zarakolu and Bü?ra Ersanl?
October 31, 2011 Minister of Justice Mr. Sadullah Ergin 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Fax: 00 90 312 419 3370 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers… More
Writer and Academic Ragip Zarakolu Arrested with Professor Büşra Ersanli
Professor Büşra Ersanlı, of the faculty of Political Science at Marmara University, and publisher Ragip Zarakolu, one of Turkey’s most prominent freedom of expression and minority rights activists and… More
For Occupy Berlin: A Song and a Prayer
This past week I visited Occupy Berlin, a movement inspired by Occupy Wall Street in New York (and also, of course, by the recent demonstrations in Spain and above… More
Writer and Academic Ragip Zarakolu and Professor Büsra Ersanli Charged
PEN International has learned that writer, academic, and publisher Ragip Zarakolu has been formally charged alongside Professor Büşra Ersanlı under the Anti-Terror Law today. PEN has received further details… More
Publisher and Leading Turkish PEN Member Ragip Zarakolu Arrested
PEN American Center has confirmed that Turkish publisher and PEN member Ragip Zarakolu has been formally arrested under Turkey’s anti-terrorism laws and imprisoned pending trial. In all, 23 of… More
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