Abstract
Basque musician Fermin Muguruza performs at Coogee Diggers in Sydney, Australia, August 2013
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Know your enemy
John Angliss introduces The Polecats, a short story by a celebrated writer who nearly lost an ear after upsetting the government of Azerbaijan
Borderless bard
Josie Timms fi nds out how the refugee crisis and plays of Shakespeare combined to inspire a new work by a poet who fl ed war in Yugoslavia
Singing for Tahrir
What happened next for the singer who became one of the most famous faces of the Egyptian revolution. Vicky Baker speaks to him
Notes of discord
The banned Basque musician talks to Rachael Jolley and shares his lyrics of protest