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When I Showed Jill Abramson and Dean Baquet Around Karachi
Jill Abramson on Seaview Beach in Karachi, Pakistan. June 2011. Picture taken by Sahar Habib Ghazi. A warm breeze was blowing when I took this photo of Jill Abramson at the end of the two days I spent...
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“I Can Feel Total Censorship in the Air”: Internet Freedom Evaporates in...
Coup protest in Bangkok, May 29, 2014. Photo by Prachatai (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) To protect the safety of the writer this post has been published anonymously. When Thai Army General Prayuth Chan-Ocha...
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While He Was Burying His Grandmother in Bosnia, Floods Submerged His Home in...
Rescue operations in the Balkans. Photographer: Marija Trbojevic. From 350.org. Used with permission. This article written by Rastko Šejić for 350.org is a moving diary of events relating to the first...
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For Literary Stars, Life's A Beachside Festival In Jamaica
Calabash Festival Moments (L to R): ) Salman Rushdie reads; interacts with audience members; a packed house; music is a key element of the festival. Images by Annie Paul and Georgia Popplewell. Used...
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Why Conducting Academic Research in Khorog, Tajikistan is a Criminal Offense
Pamir Mountains, Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan. © Ivan Sigal Khorog, the town where Global Voices community member Alexander Sodiqov was wrongfully arrested and detained for conducting...
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Do You Suffer From Device Upgrade Fever? These People May Have Found A Cure
Curing upgrade fever the Restart Project way. Image by RestartProject (CC BY-NC 2.0). This is the story of how I rescued my love for communication technology literally by rolling up my sleeves. Ever...
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‘Tajikistan's Detention of Alexander Sodiqov Cuts to the Core of What...
On the road to Khorog, Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast, Tajikistan. © Ivan SIgal. This guest post was written by University of Toronto political scientist Edward Schatz, academic adviser of...
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In Syria We Have All Become Killers
This post is part of a special series of articles by blogger and activist, Marcell Shehwaro, describing the realities of life in Syria during the ongoing armed conflict between forces loyal to the...
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Joined by Love, Separated by Egypt's Prison Walls
Clockwise: Sanaa Seif (left) and Mona Seif; Alaa Abd El Fattah with his son Khaled and Mona; Alaa and Sanaa; and Sanaa and Mona. Photo credit: Mona Seif via Facebook This post was originally written in...
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Why Taxi Drivers in Lima Are Seeing Red Over the City's New Black-and-Yellow...
“A conductor on one of Lima's combis, private minibuses which compete with Lima's taxis for both passengers and road space. Officials want to reduce their number, saying they cause accidents and are...
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If I Were A Dictator, I Would Consider You My Enemy
This post is part of a special series of articles by blogger and activist, Marcell Shehwaro, describing the realities of life in Syria during the ongoing armed conflict between forces loyal to the...
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This Russian Journalist Fears ‘Spy Scares’ May Migrate North from Tajikistan
Igor Rotar, a former correspondent for Russian media outlet Nezavisimaya Gazeta, has worked extensively in Central Asia. Here he poses with children in Kyrgyzstan. Photo taken from Rotar's Facebook....
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A Leaked Document Casts A Shadow Over Tanzania's Bright Gas Extraction Outlook
Gas extraction in Tanzania, as seen by cartoonist by Masoud Kipanya. Originally published in Mwananchi. Used with permission. No one knows for sure how much gas there is in Tanzania, though estimates...
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Israel Struggles to Win “Hearts and Minds” in Media War on Palestine
“Infographics: What Would You Do?” by Israel Defense Forces via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Written and translated by Leila Nachawati. A version of this article appeared on the website of Spanish daily...
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#FreeZone9Bloggers: On July 31, We Tweet for Human Rights—and Human Beings
FreeZone9 Tumblr. Images reused with permission. #FreeZone9Bloggers. It feels like we've written this a thousand times already. But they are still in jail. And now they have been charged with...
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