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Weekend Reading: Literature and Resistance in Turkey, Art and the Dictator, and a Year in Yemen

Reading selections for the weekend of September 16, 2016.

<p>A farm boy, with his face covered with sand, is pictured as he leaves the farm he works on, near Sanaa, Yemen (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters).</p>
A farm boy, with his face covered with sand, is pictured as he leaves the farm he works on, near Sanaa, Yemen (Khaled Abdullah/Reuters).

By experts and staff

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  • Steven A. CookCFR Expert
    Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies

Pinar Tremblay discovers that literary magazines in Turkey have become increasingly useful as a means of communicating messages of popular resistance while easily evading censorship.

Nahrain Al-Mousawi explores the art, literature, and poetry produced by Arab dictators and leaders.

Giorgio Trombatore reflects on his one year in Yemen directing an international medical team servicing casualties of the ongoing Saudi-led war against Houthi militias.