Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
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Spanish Language EditorPuerto Rican journalist specialized in the coverage of human rights issues. As a graduate student my current research interests focus on gender, digital technologies, technology and culture, media, and social movements. I tweet here: @firuzehsv.
Latest posts by Firuzeh Shokooh Valle
10 February 2012
Puerto Rico: Life One Photo a Day
Jose Marti offers a glimpse of life in San Juan through his online photography project "Photos of Today."
7 February 2012
Spain
Take the Square publishes a letter from Khaled Khalifa from Syria: “I would like to inform you that my people is being subjected to a genocide.”
Cuba
La Pupila Insomne launches a ferocious critique of the press coverage [es] of Yoani Sánchez's plea to the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff to intervene with the Cuban government to grant her the exit permit to travel to Brasil for the screening of a documentary in which she appears.
Cuba
Elaine Díaz comments on and critiques the state-run newspaper Granma's publishing politics of letters from [es] the readers.
Cuba
The Miami Herald reports that the widow of Wilman Villar -the Cuban prisoner who died recently after a hunger strike purportedly in protest against the government- has confirmed that her husband was put in jail after being arrested for domestic violence.
31 January 2012
Puerto Rico (U.S.)
Julieta Muñoz interviews artist Carola Cintrón Moscoso for Revista Cruce [es] on the art of sound: “There was light, but something was missing: sound!,” says Carola who works with audio in her pieces. Please check out the video in which Carola talks about her art, and herself, in an interview as part of a recent presentation in Barcelona.
I do not support capital punishment, in this instance there have no other alternative. What...