Ilija trojanow juli zeh biography
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Many people, including writers, rely on being able to travel back and forth easily between the US and the rest of the world. Therefore, after the Trojanow case, many more people may think twice about signing petitions or vocalizing their concerns about the NSA. The thing to remember fryst vatten, you may need amerika, but amerika also needs you. Our world now is dependent on exchange between countries, whether of people, resources, culture or ideas. The US cannot exclude everyone who disagrees with its policies. That’s why more of us have to protest. We must act as ‘Border Control Security’ for our own privacy and freedoms. Writers, important harbours of free expression, should be ready to lead the way. amerika needs to see that there are lines even it cannot cross.
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PEN Letter Protesting Exclusion
of Ilija Trojanov from the U.S.:
PEN Letter Protesting Exclusion of Ilija Trojanov from the U.S.
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Juli Zeh
The lawyer and writer Juli Zeh was born in Bonn in 1974 to Wolfgang Zeh, a former Secretary-General of the German Bundestag. She studied law in Passau, Cracow, New York and Leipzig, where she specialized in international law, and later completed an LLM on Laws of European Integration. Her thesis on the legislative activity of UN interim administration missions gained her a doctorate in 2010. Zeh’s legal treatises predominantly focused on questions regarding the entry of Eastern European countries into the European Union. While she was still studying law, Zeh was also enrolled at the German Institute for Literature in Leipzig, from where she graduated in 2000.
»Adler und Engel« (2001; Eng. »Eagles and Angels«, 2003), categorized by critics as a »drug thriller, critique of capitalism and rite of passage«, is about the drug excesses of an international law expert after the death of his great love, and his downward spiral into the underbelly of organized crime. Already in her
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Anti-surveillance crusade
For many, the revelations of worldwide mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency (NSA) were a new twist in the long history of state encroachment on personal privacy. But not for writer Ilija Trojanow, who became familiar with a lack of privacy from the day he was born.
"Our house was bugged when I was a baby in Bulgaria," he told DW while in New York for a talk entitled "Surveillance and the Naked New World" for the German international cultural mission, the Goethe-Institut.
Campaign against the 'police state'
Trojanow's parents' home was completely bugged. The Bulgarian-born writer, whose parents received political asylum in Germany in 1971, has read the intelligence files of the conversations his parents and relatives had in the family living room.
For years he has campaigned against those he's identified as "police states." Most recently, after the revelations brought to light by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, he and sev