A blog post featuring satirical cartoons of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is currently blocked by court order inside Turkey but freely available elsewhere, highlighting the delicate balance between intellectual freedom and local laws that online hosting platforms must maintain…
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BBC’s 100 Women Includes Barrier-Breaking Middle Eastern Cartoonists
Every year, the BBC puts the spotlight on influential women around the world for its 100 Women series. For 2016, the list includes three Middle Eastern cartoonists fighting for women’s rights and freedom of expression: Doaa Eladl in Egypt, Riham Elhour…
CBLDF’s 2016 Holiday Gift Guide!
If you’re still in need of holiday gifts and want to help CBLDF get ready for a new year of protecting the First Amendment, you’ve come to the right place! Welcome to our 2016 Holiday Gift Guide, full of items…
Portland: Meet Manga Great TOSHIO MAEDA Saturday!
RESCHEDULING UPDATE: Due to inclement weather, the Toshio Maeda signing and release party has been rescheduled to Saturday, Dec. 10 from 6-9 p.m. Sorry for any inconvenience! Fans in the Portland, Oregon, area have the opportunity to meet Toshio Maeda,…
Neil Gaiman’s Rarest Works Benefit Charity This Holiday Season!
Humble Bundle invites you to celebrate the holiday season with international bestselling author Neil Gaiman in the Humble Book Bundle: Neil Gaiman. This bundle is a collection of priceless rarities, many of which are unavailable anywhere else, including two brand…
Virginia School Board Votes to Restore Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn
The classic novels To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are back in school libraries and classrooms in Accomack County, Virginia today after the school board last night voted not to ban them in response to a…
Egyptian MPs Recommend Pardon for Jailed Novelist Naji
Jailed Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji was included on a parliamentary committee’s list of recommended pardons sent to President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Sunday, the same day that the next hearing in Naji’s appeal of a conviction for “violating public modesty”…
LAST DAY for Urotsukidoji Personalization!
Toshio Maeda, the creator of the genre defining hentai manga Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend will be signing and personalizing copies of the definitive English edition — but today is your last chance to order personalization!
Illinois High School Discontinues God of Small Things, Cites Lack of Initial Approval
A Chicago-area high school has discontinued use of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things in its English curriculum, saying that the novel had not gone through the initial approval process outlined in district policy and contained “subject matter in…
Abrams, Gackley Shelve Children’s Book Parody After Social Media Attacks
At the request of the book’s author, Abrams is canceling future printings of Bad Little Children’s Books following a Twitter-storm that took sections from the satirical book out of context, mischaracterizing the book as bigoted. Late last week, CBLDF signed a National…