Editorial To defend one language means that one defends all languages After the military coup of 1980 in Turkey, PEN International sent its former president Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter... By: Burhan Sonmez, President PEN INTERNATIONAL February 16 2023
Editorial It’s urgent: be our voice! On September 16, 2022, a picture of Kurdish Jina Mahsa Amini connected to a life support machine in a hospital bed was... By Marall Nasiri, Swedish actor and director at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm November 28 2022
Editorial “May the World Listen…” Oksana Zabuzhko, poet, fiction writer, and essayist, is one of contemporary Ukrainian literature’s foremost voices in... Leader: Mikael Nydahl, guest editor April 20 2022
Editorial It began with a call for help. In the beginning of August 2021, when the Taliban still had not consolidated complete control over the country, Swedish... Leader: Elisabeth Löfgren, Chair, Writers in Prison Committee, Swedish PEN March 04 2022
Editorial What is happening on the Belarusian-Polish border concerns us all It is December 2021. It is now exactly one year since we made our first publication in PEN/Opp’s Belarusian issue. At... Text: Ida Börjel, Mikael Nydahl, Stefan Ingvarsson, Kholod Saghir December 28 2021
Editorial The Myitkyina Library The conflict in Myanmar concerns a struggle between democracy and dictatorship. After a decade characterized by a slow... Editorial: Jesper Bengtsson October 01 2021
Editorial Writers in exil It is now ten years since Swedish PEN started its international online publication PEN/Opp, which up until 2019 was... Editorial: Marit Kapla September 10 2021
Editorial A Tribute to the Land of the Cedar Trees The economic crisis in Lebanon is so deep that it is described by the World Bank as one of the worst to hit any country... Chief-in-editor: Kholod Saghir June 18 2021
Editorial Exploded Hearts of the Arab Spring “A poem is a thought that bores through the heart—exploding it” - Marie Lundquist Ten years have passed since we... Text: Kholod Saghir, Acting chief-in-editor January 25 2021
Editorial “Before this summer we didn’t even know one another” Since Aljaksandr Lukashenka’s rigged election for president on august 9 in Belarus, nearly 30 000 people have been... Kholod Saghir, acting chief-in-editor, Ida Börjel & Mikael Nydahl, guest editors. December 01 2020
Editorial When Hatred Becomes the Air We Breathe What is hate speech? Hate speech differs from any other use of language since it is used only to threaten, silence, and... Text: Casia Bromberg September 17 2020
Editorial Who is Dancing in the Shadow of Corona? Who is Dancing in the Shadow of Corona? Perhaps I have never been so thoroughly reminded of my privileges as I have been... Text: Casia Bromberg June 10 2020
Editorial Testimonials we must acknowledge Imagine that you are in exile. In your home country your father has just passed away and the only way for you to say... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian April 06 2020
Editorial New wave of Internet censorship What would happen if the Internet was shut down? Many of us may have played with the idea and perhaps despaired over the... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian January 12 2020
Editorial Welcome to PEN/Opp To have been part of the emergence and growth of The Dissident Blog as from 2011 has been a schooling in the art of the... Text: Elnaz Baghlanian October 18 2019
