Point of no return
Scholars under fire abroad find refuge at US universities, not knowing if they can ever go home again
Shahriar Mandanipour thought the yearlong International Writers Project at Brown University would give him a well-needed break. The Iranian fiction writer is renown ed in his country for his short stories and novels. But the specter of censorship in Iran weighed upon him. "I lost the passion for writing," he says. (Full article: 1329 words)
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