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PEN Appeal: Syed Saleem Shahzad

June 6, 2011 President Asif Ali Zardari Office of the President Constitution Avenue Islamabad Pakistan Fax: +92 51 920 3938 / 920 1968 Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani Pakistan Secretariat Constitution Avenue Islamabad Pakistan Your Excellencies, On behalf of the 3,500 members… More

PEN Appeal: Wilfred Iván Ojeda Peralta

June 2, 2011 Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías Presidente Ministerio del Poder Popular del Despacho de la Presidencia Final Avenida Urdaneta, Esq. de Bolero Palacio de Miraflores Caracas, Distrito Capital, Venezuela Fax: + 58 (212) 806… More

Leading Journalist and Writer Murdered

PEN International is shocked and saddened by the death of journalist and author Syed Saleem Shahzad, bureau chief of the Asia Times Online and author of the newly published… More

Dostoevsky in the Ruins

I was watching a while ago a TV news program in which there was a view of Tehran after the air raid by Iraq, and the camera was panning,… More

Journalist-Activist Shot Dead

PEN International protests the murder of political columnist and activist Wilfred Iván Ojeda Peralta, who was abducted in La Victoria, Aragua state, on May 16, 2011, and found dead… More

V1agra C1alis

1I didn’t get it at first. I thought she was kidding. Viagra, Cialis, your woman will want to keep going all night. I won’t say I didn’t blush. But… More

Luminescences of Words

When I was invited, a year and a half ago, to become president of the PEN American Center, I believe it was hoped I would prove enough of a… More