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Imprisoned Ethiopian journalist honored with PEN Award
An imprisoned Ethiopian journalist and blogger who could face the death penalty for advocating peaceful protests in his Horn of Africa homeland was honored Tuesday with PEN America’s “Freedom… More
Top PEN Prize to Honor Eskinder Nega, Jailed Ethiopian Journalist and Blogger
PEN American Center today named Eskinder Nega, a journalist and dissident blogger in Ethiopia, as the recipient of its 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award. Nega, a leading… More
An Activist Guide to PEN World Voices
[caption id="attachment_11028" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="PEN World Voice Festival of International Literature"][/caption] For over 90 years, PEN has promoted literature and defended free expression by advocating on behalf of threatened writers… More
Case Histories: Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi, a psychiatrist and novelist writing in Arabic, is the author of more than 40 books, which have been translated, acclaimed, and awarded around the world. She delivered… More
Breaking Through Cybercensorship
A passionate panel of cyberactivists convened at the Cooper Union as part of the ThinkSwiss festival to discuss new tools and approaches to combating online censorship. Sponsored by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and… More
Breaking Through Cybercensorship
[caption id="attachment_9784" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Photo by Olivier Delhoume"][/caption] A passionate panel of cyberactivists convened at the Cooper Union as part of the ThinkSwiss festival to discuss new tools and approaches to combating online censorship.… More
PEN Appeal: Maikel Nabil Sanad
February 9, 2012 Director of Military Judiciary Major-General Ahmed Abd Allah Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt Fax: +202 2 402 4468 / +202 2 411 3452 Military General Attorney Major-General Medhat Radwan Military Judicial Department Cairo, Egypt Fax:… More
Tunisia, One Year Later: A Conversation with Sihem Bensedrine
Just for telling the policeman who arrested you that it was your right to protest, you would pay for it. You would be sent to prison. You would lose… More
Blogger Maikel Nabil Sanad Released
PEN International welcomes the release of blogger and activist Maikal Nabil Sanad, on January 24, 2012, days after an amnesty was announced by the authorities. PEN continues to call… More
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