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PEN Appeal: Zarakolu and Güler

March 14, 2011 Mr. Sadullah Ergin Minister of Justice 06669 Kizilay Ankara Turkey Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international organization of writers dedicated to protecting freedom of… More

Poems

Reinstatement of the RoseIt’s time to reinstate the rose,banned too long for its multiple meanings.Without pseudonyms, the journalist has a nosefor his own noose. If only to adorn graves,It’s… More

An Evening with Tariq Ramadan

Cooper Union, the East Village hall where Abraham Lincoln demolished Stephen Douglas’s states-rights argument for the extension of slavery a hundred and fifty years ago, was the setting last… More

Ilustrado

PrologueThe Panther lurks no longer in foreign shadows—he’s come home to rest. Crispin Salvador’s fitting epitaph, by his request, is merely his name.—from an unattributed obituary, The Philippine Sun,… More