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3 days ago | journals.sagepub.com | Alessandra Bajec

Tunisia’s creative scene is pushing back against President Kais Saied’s control. ALESSANDRA BAJEC explores three artistic endeavours that are breaking boundaries, and which were all spotlighted at the Nawaat FestivalYASSINE ALOUINI, A young filmmaker, was visiting his hometown Kairouan in the centre of Tunisia, when he had the idea for his short film Décret 25.07. The inspiration came to him after he saw roughly 50 Black people fleeing the city on foot.

1 week ago | journals.sagepub.com | Megan E. Schreeg |John Cullen

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1 week ago | journals.sagepub.com | Ziqing Guo |Yang Liu |Lucy Xia

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2 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Salil Tripathi

The ban on Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses has been lifted in India after nearly four decades, but its absence from bookshelves continues, writes SALIL TRIPATHIWRITERS FROM AROUND the world head for India each winter, criss-crossing the vast country to participate in dozens of literature festivals. Each festival has a bookshop, where writers are invited to sign their books.

2 weeks ago | journals.sagepub.com | Ruth Green

Repression is seeping into more and more aspects of life in Georgia, writes RUTH GREEN“NO TO CENSORSHIP” and “No to repression” read the banners unfurled by protesters night after night as they walk along Rustaveli Avenue in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Protests are nothing new to the city’s main thoroughfare.