Nawzat Shamdin and Basim Mardan
Nawzat Shamdin and Basim Mardan
Photograph of panellists at a meeting co-organised by PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee and ICORN and hosted by the Netherlands Centre, which was held in Amsterdam on 26-28 May 2015 under the title Creative Resistance – Stories from the Edge of Freedom. The Iraqi Kurdish writer and journalist Nawzat Shamdin can be seen speaking into the microphone; on his right is the writer, playwright, translator, and Middle East and North Africa Researcher at PEN International Basim Mardan. This particular panel event took place on the first day of the conference, 26 May, and was titled We Are Journalists.