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Immediately, “infamy” became American code for “Pearl Harbor,” as well as code for Japanese treachery and deceitfulness—a stab in the…
PEN American Center today applauded the introduction of legislation to accelerate and expand programs to resettle threatened Iraqi translators, journalists,…
Noting with profound concern the grave and growing refugee crisis precipitated by the US-led intervention in Iraq and exacerbated by…
It was easy to believe, as we watched U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama stride across the stage at Cairo University…
KHALED MATTAWA: What’s ringing in my ear now is the adverb “originally,” and I want to discuss with Hanan and…
“It is critical that those who are willing to raise their voices and express dissident viewpoints in Iraq have the…
The pictures that came out of Iraq told a brutal story. No, not the ones to which the public has…
I was eighteen years old, in the final stage of high school. This meant I had to join the army,…
In testimony presented to Congress this week, journalist and PEN Trustee George Packer urged the U.S. government to clarify and…
