It’s hard for many of us to imagine, but all around the world, people are being intimidated out of playing music
Music in Exile: recent cases of censorship
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The What a Liberty! project visit the Magna Carta
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Today’s Zaman columnist Nicole Pope’s final column was rejected by the new management of the paper.