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- Nagla Rizk
- Carlos Affonso Souza
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  - Nagla Rizk
  - Carlos Affonso Souza
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  title: "Global censorship: shifting modes, persisting paradigms"
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In 2014, while on a fellowship with the Yale Law School's Information Society Project, I was the lead editor for the book *Global censorship: shifting modes, persisting paradigms*, which was brought out by the A2K Global Academy (Information Society Project, Yale Law School; Access to Knowledge for Development Centre, American University, Cairo; and Instituto de Technologia & Sociedade do Rio).

That book followed from 'Global Censorship' conference at Yale in 2012, and was published as the 2nd installment of the Access to Knowledge Research Series. It had contributions from:

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  Author(s)                                                  Country                    Chapter title
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  Margot Kaminski & Pranesh Prakash                                                     Introductory Framework

  Laura DeNardis                                                                        The Privatization of Free Expression

  Anjali Dalal                                               United States of America   The Rise of Indirect Censorship

  Christina Mulligan                                         United States of America   Using Copyright Law to Censor Speech

  Caroline Ncube & Eve Gray                                  South Africa & Zimbabwe    Silencing Critical Voices

  Andrew Rens                                                South Africa               Censorship on Demand: Failure of Due Process in ISP Liability and Takedown Procedures

  Rebecca Wexler                                             Sri Lanka                  Censorship through Forensics: Video Evidence in Post-War Crises

  Pranesh Prakash                                            India                      Visible and Invisible Censorship

  Hong Xue                                                   China                      E-Commerce Third-Party Platforms as Gatekeepers of Information Flows

  Erin Biel                                                  Myanmar                    Bans, Blaming & Buddhist Monks: Censorship Concerns around Myanmar's Ethno-Religious Violence and Democratic Transition

  Mônica Steffen Guise Rosina & Alexandre Pacheco da Silva   Brazil                     Challenges for Freedom of Speech Online

  Nagla Rizk                                                 Egypt                      Behind Egypt's Communication Outage of 2011: Censorship and Economic Liberty
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