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PEN Appeal: Mosaad Suleiman Hassan

February 25, 2009 His Excellency Mohammad Hosni Mubarak President of the Republic of Egypt Heliopolis Egypt Fax: + 202 390 1998 His Excellency Dr. Mamdouh Muheiddin Marei Minister of Justice Magles El Shaab St Justice Bldg Cairo, Egypt Fax:… More

Writer and Activist Detained

International PEN is seriously concerned about the imprisonment without charge or trial of novelist, blogger and activist Mosaad Suleiman Hassan (pen name: Mosaad Abu-Fajr), who has been held since… More

Internet Writer Kareem Amer Ill-Treated

International PEN is seriously concerned for the well-being of Internet writer Kareem Amer following reports that he has been ill-treated in detention at Borg Alarab prison, where he is… More

PEN Appeal: Kareem Amer

September 15, 2008 His Excellency Mohammad Hosni Mubarak President of the Republic of Egypt Heliopolis Egypt Fax: + 202 390 1998 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,300 members of PEN American Center, an international organization… More

The Septembers of Shiraz

CHAPTER 27Isaac stretches his legs, tapping them with his fingers to help his blood circulate. He is glad to have a sink in his room; he rinses his face… More

Conversations in Tusculum

Tusculum, a town in the Alban Hills, fifteen miles southeast of Rome, is home to many country villas owned by wealthy and politically well-connected Romans. More

The Messiness of Now: A Conversation

Amitava Kumar: There was a man in the nineteenth century who anticipated everything that Ilija was going to do and write, and lived his life accordingly: Richard Francis Burton.… More