Tehran Book Fair Uncensored continues, highlighting censored voices from the Persian diaspora
The Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) came to a close on May 12th, two days after Donald Trump announced that the United States will be withdrawing from the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal. Several… Read more »
As US-Iranian relations worsen, Tehran’s book festival might be getting better
Yesterday, Donald Trump pulled out of what was considered to be Obama’s signature foreign policy deal — an agreement with Iran to lift sanctions in exchange for nuclear accountability. In return,… Read more »
Columbia Journalism Students organize a book drive for detained Reuters journalists in Myanmar
This past December, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists, were unjustly detained in Myanmar following their coverage of the humanitarian crisis caused by ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in… Read more »
Egypt continues its crackdown on authors, booksellers, and publishers
MobyLives has been covering Egypt’s depressingly long crackdown on intellectuals, writers, booksellers, and publishers for some time now, giving particular attention to the trials and tribulations of novelist Ahmed Naji. In… Read more »
Make no mistake: Free speech is under heavy attack
Yesterday, former Breitbart news editor Ben Shapiro showed up to speak at the University of California, Berkeley. It was many things: a pointless provocation, a field day for newsroom thesauruses, and the inaugural installment… Read more »
Mark Bray wants to pull the emergency brake on white supremacy
Yesterday was another busy one for Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, available everywhere tomorrow. He appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press, where he and Southern Poverty Law… Read more »
The memoir of an imprisoned former Israeli Prime Minister has led to multiple police raids
Ehud Olmert has seen better days. The George W. Bush-painted former Prime Minister of Israel (he served the office from 2006 to 2009) is currently serving out a prison sentence for… Read more »
In Turkey, a suspected terrorist continues to operate a bookstore, as hundreds of journalists, authors, and publishers are rounded up
Since the failed coup against him in September 2016, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has taken dramatic measures to consolidate his power: hunting down members of the opposition, calling for changes to… Read more »
Ecuadoran government fines journalists for what they didn’t say
While governments around the world have been known to crack down on journalists for covering stories that, in one way or another, threaten their authority, it’s rarer to hear about… Read more »
Breitbart, allegedly facing advertising woes, could become more insidious
Efforts to push companies to pull their advertising dollars from Breitbart seem to actually be working. In the past week, various reports have come out to indicate that the boycott… Read more »