Daniel R. Mekonnen* PEN Eritrea in Exile participated in the ICORN Network Meeting & PEN International WiPC Conference that took place in the city of Lillehammer (Norway) from 31 May to 2 June 2017. The event, which was a joint biennial conference, was one of the most important international gatherings of writers and artists from
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Natsnet’s story in Saudi Arabia is typical of the life of most domestic workers in the Gulf, where they are kept as prisoners working long hours and subjected to humiliation and harassment by the families they serve. The unfortunate fate Natsnet and other victims of the modern-day slavery of domestic labor in Gulf countries is
Habte Selassie, Bereket. Deliverance: A Tale of Colliding Passions and the Muse of Forgiveness. New Jersey: Red Sea Press, 2017, 330 pages Bereket Habte Selassie’s Deliverance: A Tale of Colliding Passions and the Muse of Forgiveness (2017) is a novel based on the recent history of Ethiopia during which the last emperor was dethroned in
Yonatan Tewelde “They questioned him sternly for several minutes, and then the director stood up and asked him to stretch out his arm. He hit the student several times on his palm with a stick. The boy, who was obviously in pain, at one point pulled his hand back and was roughly ordered to put
By Yonatan Tewelde* Eritrean filmmaker Tesfit Abraha has spoken out about the repressive apparatus at the Eritrean Ministry of Information where he has worked as a cameraman for 15 years in an interview he gave to Radio Wegahta. Tesfit has made a name for himself in the Eritrean art circles as the writer, director and cameraman
By Staff Eritrean award-winning poet and Zemen’s former editor-in-chief, Amanuel Asrat has received Oxfam Novib/PEN Awards for Freedom of Expression in absentee at the opening night of Writers Unlimited Winter Nights at The Hague, on January 14, 2016. The two co-recipients of the award are Turkish journalist and filmmaker Can Dündar and Egyptian writer, Omar