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interviewsDecember 8, 2021December 22, 2021

The Epoch of Human Shame: An Interview with Samar Yazbek

Samar Yazbek on conflict, imagination and literature in Syria. Translated by Leri Price.

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archiveFebruary 13, 2014

Syria – the betrayed uprising

Samar Yazbek, journalist, author and winner of an English PEN Writers in Translation award, returns our attention to Syria, the cynicism of the regime, the influence of outside powers, and how these combine at a great cost to the people

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archiveDecember 20, 2012

PEN Atlas – One Year On

PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis looks back at a year of dispatches from around the world, and looks forward to more cutting-edge literature, essays and articles in translation​ in 2013

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archiveSeptember 27, 2012

PEN Atlas – Editor’s Round Up

​In the first of a monthly series, PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis rounds up some of the highlights so far, and suggests some great further reading for our literary travellers

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archiveSeptember 27, 2012

PEN Atlas – Editor's Round Up

​In the first of a monthly series, PEN Atlas editor Tasja Dorkofikis rounds up some of the highlights so far, and suggests some great further reading for our literary travellers

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archiveSeptember 6, 2012

Dispatch from Syria: Capturing the Truth

Following on from her piece for the English PEN magazine, Samar Yazbek ​describes the dangerous, often fatal struggle of capturing the truth of the Syrian revolution

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