Did the Arab Spring herald a false dawn of creative freedom, and has its failure led to the curtailing of an artistic renaissance, asks Hind Shoufani
I hate censorship. But I also love my life. My freedom, and my physical safety. These are the contradictions that any non-commercially minded artist has to carry with them into the boxing ring, if they find themselves wanting to create controversial taboo-busting work in the Arab world.
I host, curate and rabble rouse in a platform called the Poeticians, and recently we took 100 people or so on a poetic but difficult experience into our minds and guts, spewing poems about the world crumbling around us.
Before we got on stage, I had
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