Add to your saved storiesSave Merle Goldman, a prominent scholar of Chinese affairs who specialized in the work of writers and dissidents confronting the powerful central state, positing that China’s rise as a global economic force could eventually pry open Beijing’s tight lid on opposition, died Nov. 16 at her home in Cambridge, Mass. She … Read more
Iran’s state media say an unknown assailant stabbed noted Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife to death in their home ByThe Associated Press October 15, 2023, 12:35 AM TEHRAN, Iran — Noted Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjui and his wife were stabbed to death in their home by an unknown assailant, state media … Read more
Ten famous thinkers, writers and filmmakers, together with Ken Loach and Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux, have signed an open letter calling on the president of Algeria to free a jailed journalist they mentioned was punished for refusing to bow to the gov… PARIS — Ten famous thinkers, writers and filmmakers, together with director Ken … Read more