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Translating Arabic in Cairo
Literature Across Frontier's Nia Davies introduces their Arabic translation training programme, and explains how their translation workshops in Egypt have been affected by the revolution.
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A Shop Selling Speech
As Associate Playwright at the Bush Theatre, Sabrina Mahfouz spent January in her other motherland, Egypt, to research a theatre project inspired by the uprisings of the past year. As Sabrina discovered, so many things had changed - for better or worse - and so many things were exactly the same - for better or worse.
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Video: Free Word hosts the launch of Writers Bloc
Writers including Kamila Shamsie and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie discuss education around the world at the launch of pioneering writing and education project Writers Bloc.
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Yemeni press freedom activist Tawakel Karman wins Nobel Prize
ARTICLE 19 congratulates the joint recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, including Tawakkul Karman for her inspiring work as head of press freedom organisation, Women Journalists Without Chains. “ARTICLE 19 is delighted that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Karman, Johnson-Sirleaf and Gbowee, all renowned women’s rights activists. I am delighted that the Nobel Committee has recognised…