The Taliban targeted us, beat us and chased us out. This is how we run our Afghan newspaper from exile | Sakhidad Hatif
The vibrant media sector in Afghanistan was completely dismantled by the Taliban after they came to power, leading to the exodus of journalists and closure of media outlets. [ more ]
Kremlin critics: What happens to Putin's most vocal opponents?
Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny is just one of many Kremlin critics to have fallen foul of the government under President Vladimir Putin's rule.
Navalny, 47, who Russian prison authorities said had died on Friday, was jailed in early 2021 after returning from Germany, where he was recovering from a near-fatal poisoning attack.
Some of Putin's high-profile critics have been in exile for years. [ more ]
Exile serves as a powerful engine for fiction, allowing writers to gain an intimate proximity to a new society while still standing at a distance from it.
The duality of being an exile, both inside and outside, is also the superpower of the novelist, allowing them to capture unique perspectives and experiences. [ more ]
Julio Cortázar was hailed as one of Latin America's greatest writers after his death in 1984.
Cortázar was exiled from his home country of Argentina in the 1970s but was greeted as a hero when he visited after the democratically elected government came to power. [ more ]