Our Keynote Speaker for The &nd Festival is Gary Barwin! Gary will be speaking and offering closing remarks for the festival from 4:30-5:45pm on Nov. 4th. Get your tickets today!
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Join us Nov 9-11 for 3 days of engaging discussions along with a hands-on workshop to demystify the process of archiving your photographs, journals, & other materials. Our goal is to empower diasporic & minority communities to preserve our legacies. https://t.co/TVfJwGWWSK
Access Copyright stands with the people of Israel and all those impacted by the crisis in Israel and Gaza. We unequivocally condemn the horrific acts of terrorism by Hamas that have deliberately targeted innocent civilians. 1/4
2/ This seizure is particularly disappointing in light of President Kais Saied's remarks to the press earlier today on the need to "liberate thought because we cannot accomplish anything with rigid thought."
PEN Canada condemns the Tunisian government's confiscation of a new book by Kamel Riahi, and the closure of the Dar El-Kitab stand at the 37th Tunis International Book Fair #freedomtoread 1/ https://t.co/2jqkcEqe0U
#Türkiye: sociologist and PEN member Pınar Selek is one of 115 cases of persecuted writers documented in our 2022 Case List. Read more here:
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@cbcradio Now a scholar studying the connections btwn warfare, drugs & terrorism, he is in Canada with his wife and daughter Sola, which means peace. Bilal is one of 4 celebrated writers reading at this Sunday's PEN Canada @writersinexile#VoicesofFreedom3#event https://t.co/Mi2vNjoHqv
#EVENT When #BilalSarwary was forced to leave #Afghanistan after the Taliban stormed to power in 2021, he told @CBCRadio it was like taking a knife in the heart. As a journalist, he worked extensively with Western media for 20 years putting him on the Taliban's execution list 1/2
Watch the powerful digital monument to the murdered writers and journalists around the world in 2022, created by Writers Unlimited, with the support of PEN International and the Committee to Protect Journalists. @writersunlimitd@pressfreedom