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          A clip from Iranian director Jafar Panahi's black football comedy, Offside. What happens at the end of the match? See the original article, plus interview with Panahi at this link: http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Film/offside_3620.jsp
                                                
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          openDemocracy's Richard Young talks to David Leaf, writer and director of "John Lennon vs the US," a film about the Nixon administration's attempts to silence Lennon's anti-war message.
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          openDemocracy presents the second of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Two giants of south Asian culture, the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie discuss democracy, migration and identity. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen2_3520.jsp Part 1 of a 2 part audio.
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          Hear Clive Stafford Smith explain. "Those three people were meant to stand up in court and say 'I'm guilty' just like in the days of Joe Stalin ... It's meant to divert your attention from the fact that Osama Bin Laden has never been caught". For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/xml/xhtml/articles/3055.html Part 6 of a 10 part interview.
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          openDemocracy presents the second of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Two giants of south Asian culture, the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie discuss democracy, migration and identity. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen2_3520.jsp Part 2 of a 2 part audio.
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          Khoury discusses the endlessly-debated question of literature's relation to politics. The ambiguities and complexities of literature are not the stuff of practical political life, yet the imaginative power of literature offers one of the few possible ways out of a deadlock of mutual non-comprehension. For partial transcripts and observations, plus an extract from Elias Khoury's book "Gate of the Sun", please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/khoury_3462.jsp Part two...
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          openDemocracy presents the second of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Two giants of south Asian culture, the Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen and novelist Salman Rushdie discuss democracy, migration and identity. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen2_3520.jsp Both parts of a 2 part audio.
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          Wish you could hear as well as see openDemocracy? Well now you can! Listen to the first of our weekly poDcasts.
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Tariq Ramadan speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression.
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          From the "Ankelohe Conversations" in Germany Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, and Mark Lynas discuss climate change and the oil endgame.
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          openDemocracy presents the first of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood discuss power, shame and saying the unsayable. For partial transcripts and observations, visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen_3488.jsp
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          Part 1 (of 2 part interview): political culture For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3258
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Hilton, The Eagles Throne, Mexico,
                            
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          The World Bank economist Branko Milanovic talks to openDemocracy about globalisation, inequality and labour mobility.
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          Over the last 15 years, the Strait of Gibraltar has become one of the main gateways for illegal immigration in north Africa. Yto Barrada's photographs, taken between 1998 - 2004, capture the temptations of leaving, and the unfulfilled hopes of escaping into Europe. Charlotte Collins talks to her. For partial transcripts and observations please visit Part 1: the background Part 1 of a 2 part interview.
                    Topic: Yto Barrada, Morocco, Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, Strait Project
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          Clive Stafford-Smith is a lawyer who represents many of the more than 500 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. In an exclusive interview for openDemocracy, he describes the prison camp and the conditions that lawyers work under, tells us how his clients have been tortured and explains how false information extracted by torture is contaminating US intelligence. Listen to Guantanamo, the inside story. For transcripts and observations please visit...
                    Topic: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib,...
          Source: openDemocracy
                  
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          After the mid-term elections, what next for US politics? Sidney Blumenthal, openDemocracy columnist and author of "How Bush Rules", speaks in this exclusive interview with openDemocracy editor Isabel Hilton about the Democratic victory, the Republican trauma, and the Bush predicament now.
                    Topic: Sidney Blumenthal, Isabel Hilton, opendemocracy, open democracy, politics, democracy, midterms,...
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          Amidst ongoing violence and fragile politics, how has independent reportage fared in post-Taliban Afghanistan? Charlie Devereux talks to world-renowned photojournalist Reza about his Kabul-based NGO Aïna and ambitions to construct a free Afghan media.
                    Topic: opendemocracy, Taliban, Aina, Charlie devereux, reza, photography, Afghanistan, Taliban, NGO,...
                            
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Juan Luis Cebrian speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression.
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                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          Hear Clive Stafford-Smith talk about what it's like to conduct client attorney interviews in Guantanamo. "It all depends on whether you believe in Santa Claus". For partial transcript and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 3 of a 10 part interview.
                    Topic: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib,...
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          Listen to Choman Hardi read "Summer roof". For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 4 of a 4 poem selection.
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          Over 1000 people have been executed in the US since the death penalty was reintroduced in 1976. Sister Helen Prejean, a leading campaigner against capital punishment and author of "Dead Man Walking", talks to Isabel Hilton about the flaws in the American judicial system and whether the death penalty will ever be abolished. Plus, an exclusive extract from her new book "The Death of Innocents". For partial transcripts and observations please visit...
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          Hear Clive Stafford Smith, who visits Guantanamo regularly, talk about the camp, the prisoners and what it's like trying to defend men the president has described as the "worst of the worst". For partial transcript and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 1 of a 10 part interview.
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. In a question and answer session eight speakers discuss writing, religion, and freedom of expression: What does respect mean, how can work still be meaningful without self-censoring?
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          Hear Clive Stafford-Smith explain why it has been the worst public relations disaster America has ever known. For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 8 of a 10 part interview
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          In hundreds of interwoven stories, "Gate of the Sun" addresses the memory of the nakba, the flight and expulsion of large numbers of Palestinians during the war of 1948. Here, Elias Khoury talks about why it has taken so long for an epic novel of this experience to be written, how he combined imaginative literature with documented events, and his fascination for the province of Galilee. Part 1 of a three part interview. For transcripts and observations, visit...
                    Topics: opendemocracy, elias khoury, palestine, arab, literature, nakba
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          Hear Clive Stafford Smith talk about life of the men - and boys - inside the prison camp. "I have visited most of the death rows in America and none of them compare to the treatment of those prisoners there". For partial transcript and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 2 of a 10 part interview.
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          Earlier this year an historic lawsuit opened, charging the Chinese authorities with genocide and other crimes in Tibet. openDemocracy talks to Tenzin Tsundue, one of the Tibetan witnesses testifying in the case, and the Spanish-based NGO that launched the proceedings.
                    Topic: Emily Hunter, Comite de Apoyo del Tibet, Tibet, opendemocracy, democracy, politics, open democracy,...
                            
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          Listen to Choman Hardi read "At the border". For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 1 of a 4 poem selection.
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers the Pentagon's secret, twelve-volume history of United States involvement in Vietnam. Why did he do it? For partial transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=3&debateId=33&articleId=3101 Part 2 of a 4 part interview.
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          Listen to Sister Helen Prejean on public concern about the death penalty. For partial transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3186 Part 2 of 4 part interview.
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          Hear Clive Stafford-Smith talk about the dirty tricks the US military plays on the lawyers and their clients in Guantanamo: "Nothing I've heard, is of any consequence to US security whatsoever, unless the fact that my clients have been tortured and abused by US soldiers is of consequence to US national security". For partial transcript and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 4 of a 10 part interview.
                    Topic: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib,...
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          Listen to Sister Helen Prejean explain the cultural significance of the death penalty in the United States. For partial transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3186 Part 1 of 4 part interview.
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Sister Helen Prejean, death penalty, dead man walking,...
                            
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          Knowing how the system works, what does Daniel Ellsberg think it would take to get out of Iraq? For partial transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=3&debateId=33&articleId=3101 Part 4 of a 4 part interview.
                    Topic: Daniel Ellsberg, Vietnam, Pentagon Papers, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, Iraq, whistle-blower,...
                            
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          Listen to Yang Lian read "London" in Chinese, and an English translation performed by Peter Forbes. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 3 of a 3 poem series
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          Daniel Ellsberg pioneered modern 'whistleblowing' when, as a former insider, he revealed the Pentagon's classified, 7,000-page history of the Vietnam war in 1971. Why did he do it, and what lessons can he give to those troubled by the Iraq war today? Listen to Daniel Ellsberg's four-part interview with openDemocracy's Isabel Hilton.
                    Topic: vietnam whistle-blowing ellsberg opendemocracy
                            
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          Part 2: literary imagination and democracy For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3258 Part 2 of a 2 part interview.
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Hilton, The Eagles Throne, Mexico
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          Hear Clive Stafford Smith on US efforts to save face as it tries to close down Guantanamo. For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 7 of a 10 part interview
                    Topic: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib,...
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          Listen to Jack Mapanje read Season's Greetings For Celia (BC) For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 2 in a 2 poem series
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          Hear Clive Stafford-Smith explain that the real problem is the secret prisons around the world and how the US based "catastrophic decisions" on false evidence obtained through torture. For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Final part of a 10 part interview
                    Topic: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib,...
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          openDemocracy presents the first of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood discuss power, shame and saying the unsayable. For partial transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen_3488.jsp Part one of a three part interview.
                    Topic: openDemocracy, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, PEN, democracy, open democracy
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Hans Magnus Enzensberger speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression.
                    Topic: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger,...
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          Khoury addresses American attitudes to the Middle East and his assessment of the chances for Israeli-Palestinian peace. Amidst a crisis in the Arab world, he says, Arab intellectuals must continue to articulate the idea of a secular, democratic and just society. To view transcripts and observations, visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/khoury_3462.jsp. Part 3 of a three part interview.
                    Topics: opendemocracy, elias khoury, palestine, literature, israel
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          Listen to Yang Lian read 1989 in Chinese, and an English translation performed by Peter Forbes. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 1 of a 3 poem series
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          Carlos Fuentes, one of Latin America's foremost novelists, talks to Isabel Hilton about his latest book "The Eagle's Throne" which explores the nature of power and presidency in a future Mexico. For transcripts and observations, visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3258 Interview in two parts.
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Hilton, The Eagles Throne, Mexico,
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          By the mid-1960s it was widely understood at official level in the Pentagon and the state department that Vietnam, as Ellsberg put it, "was not the place where we could plant our flag" yet the war continued until 1975. openDemocracy asks Daniel Ellsberg: why, if the experts knew that the policy was failing, did successive United States presidents not know it? For partial transcripts and observations, please visit...
                    Topic: Daniel Ellsberg, Vietnam, Pentagon Papers, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, Iraq, whistle-blower,...
                            
            
     
    
    
            
        
      
      
      
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression.
                    Topic: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger,...
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          Listen to Yang Lian read Shi Tao's poem "Pain, and an English translation performed by Peter Forbes For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 2 of a 2 poem series
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          The CIA is accused of operating "black sites" - secret prisons in Europe, using European airports for clandestine flights connected to the transfer of unacknowledged prisoners. Alvaro Gil-Robles, human-rights commissioner for the Council of Europe, tells openDemocracy's Isabel Hilton that this must stop - and that democrats cannot fight terrorism by abandoning their principles and values. For transcripts and observations please visit...
                    Topic: torture, detention, CIA secret flights, European Convention on Human Rights, democracy, terrorism,...
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          Part 2: the photographs Part 2 of a 2 part interview. For partial transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-photography/barrada_3551.jsp
                    Topic: Yto Barrada, Morocco, Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, Strait Project
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          From the "Ankelohe Conversations" in Germany Solana Larsen talks to the Author of "High Tide: News from a warming world", Mark Lynas, about climate change and the oil endgame.
                    Topic: opendemocracy, Ankelohe Conversations, Solana Larsen, Jeremy Leggett, George Marshall, Mark Lynas,...
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          openDemocracy presents the first of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk and Margaret Atwood discuss power, shame and saying the unsayable. Part 2, in which Orhan Pamuk talks about freedom of expression, and the legacy of the Iraq war. For partial transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/pen_3488.jsp
                    Topic: openDemocracy, Orhan Pamuk, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, PEN, democracy, open democracy
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Speakers discuss writing, religion, and freedom of expression and Ian Buruma brings up the question of Power.
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. In a question and answer session eight speakers discuss writing, religion, and freedom of expression: Should there be a distinction between we define freedom of speech in artistic domain and public domain?
                    Topic: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger,...
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          Listen to Sister Helen Prejean on who wants it and who doesn't. For partial transcripts and observations please visit: http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3186 Part 4 of 4 part interview.
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          "Literature is the way to deal with the human soul, to deal with our perception of life." Gate of the Sun, Elias Khoury's highly acclaimed epic novel is among the very first and few to address the modern history of Palestine. What inspired him to write it, and what are his hopes for peace in the Arab world? Listen to Elias Khoury's three-part interview with Brian Hanrahan. To read transcripts and observation, visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/arts-Literature/khoury_3462.jsp.
                    Topic: opendemocracy elias khoury palestine arab literature
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          What is it like to live as a poet in exile from your people, your culture and your language? openDemocracy features a special audio of live poetry readings by Jack Mapanje, Yang Lian and Choman Hardi from an event organised by Poet in the City and Amnesty International. For transcripts and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Listen to Jack Mapanje read Skipping Without Ropes - Poem 1 in a 2 poem series
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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          Hear Clive Stafford-Smith explain why he is working for the Guantanamo prisoners. "It's always been a rule of my life that if someone is being hated, you have to get between the hated and the hater". For partial transcript and observations, please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=2&debateId=124&articleId=3055 Part 5 of a 10 part interview.
                    Topic: Guantanamo, Clive Stafford-Smith, Isabel Hilton, openDemocracy, democracy, black sites, abu ghraib,...
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          openDemocracy presents the third of a series of audio features from the PEN World Voices literary festival. Nilufer Gole speaks about writing, religion, and freedom of expression.
                    Topic: PEN, opendemocracy, World Voices, Juan Luis Cebrian, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Hans Magnus Enzensberger,...
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          Listen to Choman Hardi read "My mother's kitchen" For transcripts and observations please visit http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article.jsp?id=1&debateId=66&articleId=3035 Poem 3 of a 4 poem selection.
                    Topic: democracy, open democracy, openDemocracy, Choman Hardi, Yang Lian, Jack Mapanje, human rights,...
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