By Patricia Lee Shape
By all accounts the next edition of Charlie Hebdo is coming out on schedule. That's the best reply to those who don't understand satire or the need for the full exercise of free speech, even when it hurts.
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About Us
- Patricia Lee Sharpe
Poet, journalist, teacher, foreign service officer with 23 years public diplomacy experience in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean. - Patricia H. Kushlis
27 years public diplomacy experience in Europe, Asia and Washington, DC as a US foreign service officer. International affairs writer, analyst and commentator.
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Our Books
Patricia Lee Sharpe: The Danger is Seduction: People, Places, Possibilities
Patricia Lee Sharpe: Driving Under the Influence: Two Novellas & a Story
Fahmida Riaz: Four Walls and a Black Veil
Pat Sharpe as principal translator of deeply moving Pakistani Feminist Poetry