Nathan Thrall
Nathan Thrall is an American author, essayist, and journalist, who is known for his 2023 nonfiction work A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy, and is a contributor to several literary magazines. As of 2023 he is a professor at Bard College in New York state.
Thrall is the former director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, where from 2010 until 2020 he covered Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel's relations with its neighbors.
Thrall is Jewish, and his mother is a Jewish émigrée from the Soviet Union.
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Mohammed El-Kurd
MOHAMMED EL-KURD is an internationally touring and award-winning poet, writer, journalist, and organizer from Jerusalem, occupied Palestine.
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In 2021, He was named as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME Magazine.
He is best known for his role as a co-founder of the #SaveSheikhJarrah movement. His work has been featured in numerous international outlets and he has appeared repeatedly as a commentator on major TV networks.
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Omar El Akkad
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Gideon Levy
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Christopher L. Hayes
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Peter Beinart
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John J. Mearsheimer
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Mearsheimer is best known for developing the theory of offensive realism, which describes the interaction between great powers as being primarily driven by the rational desire to achieve regional hegemony in an anarchic international system. In accordance with his theory, Mearsheimer believes that China's growing power will likely bring it into conflict with the United States.
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His latest book, The Human Scale , is a sweeping, timely thriller, in which a Palestinian-American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. According to The New York Times, “Wright succeeds in this complex, deeply felt work.”
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Julie Powell
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David J. Krajicek
First things first: The name is pronounced CRY-check.
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I'm a writer, mostly about crime and murder, although most recently I have published two family-related historical memoirs, "Dear Mama" and "Coming Home to South Omaha." Before retiring recently from the music business, I spent 30 years singing and playing trombone in a band based in the mountains of upstate New York--old-school R&B, like Motown and Stax. Nowadays, most of my spare time is consumed by tennis.
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Raja Shehadeh
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Sally Hayden
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William Egginton
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Namik Kabil
Namik Kabil djetinjstvom i prvom mladošću Trebinjac, rođen je 1968. u Tuzli, a prije rata je umjereno neuspješno studirao medicinu. Kada je u Trebinju započela vojna mobilizacija za napad na Dubrovnik, sklanja se na nekoliko mjeseci u rodnu Tuzlu. Kada je i u Tuzli počeo rat, preko američke humanitarne agencije bježi preko oceana i stiže u Los Angeles. Godina je 1993, i sljedećih devet godina ostaje u Americi. Potom se vraća i nastanjuje u Sarajevu, gdje nikad ranije nije živio. Postaje šire poznat kao scenarist filma “Kod amidže Idriza”, redatelja Pjera Žalice.
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Kabilov dokumentarni film 'Informativni razgovori' dobitnik je nagrade "Srce Sarajeva" na Sarajevo Film Festivalu 2007. godine, a dugometražni igrani film 'Čuvari noći' imao je svjet -
Neil MacFarquhar
Neil MacFarquhar spend his childhood in Libya and for years worked as a Middle East correspondent. He is a journalist for the New York Times.
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Adrian Henri
Liverpool poet and artist, Adrian Henri, is famous for his contribution to the ‘Liverpool Sound’ in the nineteen-sixties, when he led the poetry/rock group Liverpool Scene. Since then he has been a freelance poet, painter, singer, songwriter and lecturer.
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Nur Masalha
Professor Nur Masalha is a Palestinian historian and formerly Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary's University, Twickenham. He is Editor of “Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies”: http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/hls, published by Edinburgh University Press. He is the author of many books on Palestine-Israel. His current work focuses on religion and politics in the Middle East, oral history and social memory theory, subaltern studies, new Palestinian and Israeli historiography, the Bible and Zionism, Holy Land toponymy, Jerusalem archaeology, theologies of liberation in Palestine and Life-Long Learning in Palestine.
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Sandy Tolan
Sandy Tolan is a teacher and radio documentary producer. He is the author of two books: Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later (Free Press, 2000), about the intersection between race, sports, and American heroes; and The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2006). The Washington Post called the book “extraordinary” and selected it among their top nonfiction titles for 2006; the Christian Science Monitor wrote, “no novel could be more compelling” and proclaimed, “It will be one of the best nonfiction books you will read this year.”Sandy has reported from more than 30 countries, especially in the Middle East, Latin America, the Balkans, and Eastern Europe.
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Johann Chapoutot
Johann Chapoutot est professeur d'histoire contemporaine à l'université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. Spécialiste de l'histoire de la culture nazie et d'histoire politique et culturelle contemporaine, il est notamment l'auteur de La Loi du sang. Penser et agir en nazi (Bibliothèque des Histoires, 2014) et de La révolution culturelle nazie (Bibliothèque des Histoires, 2017).
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Jeremy Scahill
Jeremy Scahill is an American investigative journalist and author whose work focuses on the use of private military companies.
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He is the author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, winner of a George Polk Book Award.
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Jan Carson
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts development officer currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has a BA in English Literature from Queen’s University Belfast and an MLitt. In Theology and Contemporary Culture from St. Andrew’s University, Scotland. Jan has had short stories published in literary journals on both sides of the Atlantic, has had two of her plays produced for the Belfast stage and is a current recipient of the Arts Council NI’s Artist’s Career Enhancement Bursary. Her first novel, “Malcolm Orange Disappears” will be published by Liberties Press, Dublin on June 2nd 2014.
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Adam Shatz
Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications. He is also the host of the podcast “Myself with Others,” produced by the pianist Richard Sears. Adam has been a visiting professor at Bard College and New York University and a fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars. Raised in Massachusetts, he studied history at Columbia University and has lived in New York City since 1990.
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John W. Hackett
General Sir John Winthrop Hackett GCB, CBE, DSO & Bar, MC was an Australian-born British soldier, author and university administrator.
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Hackett, who was nicknamed "Shan", was born in Perth, Western Australia. His Irish Australian father, Sir John Winthrop Hackett (1848–1916), originally from Tipperary,was a newspaper proprietor and politician and his mother was Deborah Drake-Brockman (1887–1965) — later Lady Deborah Hackett, Lady Deborah Moulden and Dr Deborah Buller Murphy — a director of mining companies. John Hackett junior's maternal grandparents were prominent members of Western Australian society: Grace Bussell, famous for rescuing shipwreck survivors as a teenager and Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman, a prominent surveyor and explorer.
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Gitta Sereny
Gitta Sereny was an Austrian born journalist, biographer and historian. She passed away in England aged 91, following a long illness.
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Gitta attributed her fascination with evil to her own experiences of Nazism as a child of central Europe in the early 20th century. Hers was not a happy childhood. She was born in Vienna, the daughter of a beautiful Austrian actress, whom she later described as "without moral opinions", and a wealthy Hungarian landowner. Her father, Gyula, died when she was a child; her elder brother left home at 18 and disappeared from her life; Gitta herself was sent to Stonar House boarding school in Sandwich, Kent, an experience she remembered with some affection.
In 1934, while changing trains in Nuremberg on a journey ho -
Atef Abu Saif
Atef Abu Saif is a Palestinian writer, born in Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in 1973, to a family originally from Jaffa. He holds a BA from Birzeit University, an MA from the University of Bradford (UK) and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the University of Florence, Italy.
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He teaches Political Science at the University of Al-Azhar, Gaza, and is Chief Editor of Siyasat magazine, published by the Public Policy Institute in Ramallah. He is the author of six novels and was shortlisted for the 2015 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. He has also published two collections of short stories, three plays and a number of books on political science. -
Robin Yassin-Kassab
Robin Yassin-Kassab was born in London in 1969. He has taught English around the Arab world as well as in Turkey, and has been a journalist in Pakistan. His first novel, The Road From Damascus, was published in 2008.
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Tahir Hamut Izgil
Tahir Hamut was born in 1969 in a small town near Kashgar. He published his first poem in 1986, and has since been recognized as one of the foremost modernist poets writing in Uyghur. His poetry has appeared in translation in Asymptote, Off the Coast, Crazy Horse, and elsewhere. Since the late '90s he has worked as a film director, founding his own production company and achieving recognition for his feature films, documentaries, and other projects. He currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.
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Geoffrey Douglas
Geoffrey Douglas is the author of six books --five of nonfiction and one novel--and more than 100 magazine pieces, many of them widely anthologized. A former reporter, editor, columnist, and adjunct professor of creative writing at the University of Massachusetts, he has been a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a writer-in-residence at several schools and universities.
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His most recent work, "Love in a Dark Place" (2025), described by Kirkus Reviews as "a moving, unflinching novel about human depravity and the way love can coexist in its menacing presence," is set in 1980s Atlantic City, where Douglas worked at the time as editor of an investigative weekly.
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John Freeman
Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
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John Freeman is an award-winning writer and book critic who has written for numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Freeman won the 2007 James Patterson Pageturner Award for his work as the president of the National Book Critics Circle, and was the editor of Granta from 2009 to 2013. He lives in New York City, where he teaches at NYU and edits a new literary biannual called Freeman's. -
Ivan Vladislavić
Ivan Vladislavić is a novelist, essayist and editor. He lives in Johannesburg where he is a Distinguished Professor in Creative Writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. His books include The Folly, The Restless Supermarket, Portrait with Keys and Double Negative. Among his recent publications are Flashback Hotel, a compendium of early stories; The Loss Library, a reflection on writing; and 101 Detectives, a collection of new short stories. He has edited volumes on architecture and art. His work has won several prizes, including the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize and the Alan Paton Award for non-fiction. In 2015, he was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction by Yale University.
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Andrei Lankov
Andrei Lankov is a North Korea expert and professor of history at Kookmin University in Seoul. He graduated from Leningrad State University and has been an exchange student at Pyongyang Kim Il-sung University.
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Christian Picciolini
Christian Picciolini is an award-winning television producer, a public speaker, author, antiracism advocate, and a former extremist. After leaving the hate movement he helped create during the 1980s and 90s, he began the painstaking process of making amends and rebuilding his life. Christian went on to earn a degree in international relations from DePaul University and launched Goldmill Group, a counter-extremism consulting and digital media firm. In 2016, he won an Emmy Award for producing an anti-hate advertising campaign aimed at helping people disengage from extremism. For nearly two decades, Christian has helped hundreds of individuals leave hate behind through his disengagement work and the organizations he founded. He has spoken all
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Adam Davies
Adam Davies was born in Louisville, KY. He is the author of three novels: The Frog King, soon to be a major motion picture starring Joseph Godron-Levitt, with a script by Bret Easton Ellis; Goodbye Lemon, a family drama; and Mine All Mine, which was purchased for film with the author to write the screenplay. Adam's non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times and he has made many appearances on radio and television programs, including NPR and the A&E Channel's Breakfast with the Arts. His books are in print around the world in places such as Europe, Thailand, Russian, and Australia. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.
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Thomas Gallagher
Thomas Gallagher (1918-1992) was a widely published journalist and the author of eight books. His novel The Gathering Darkness (1952) was nominated for a National Book Award; his Fire at Sea: The Story of the Moro Castle (1959) won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for nonfiction.
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Donald Macintyre
Donald Macintyre is a British freelance journalist and author. He has worked for a number of leading British newspapers including The Daily Express, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Independent. In 2011 he won the Next Century Foundation's Peace Through Media Award.
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W.S. Merwin
William Stanley Merwin was an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation and prose.
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William Stanley Merwin (September 30, 1927 – March 15, 2019) was an American poet who wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. During the 1960s anti-war movement, Merwin's unique craft was thematically characterized by indirect, unpunctuated narration. In the 1980s and 1990s, his writing influence derived from an interest in Buddhist philosophy and deep ecology. Residing in a rural part of Maui, Hawaii, he wrote prolifically and was dedicated to the restoration of the island's rainforests.
Merwin received many honors, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and 2009; the Nationa -
S. Yizhar
Yizhar Smilansky (Hebrew: יזהר סמילנסקי, 27 September 1916 – 21 August 2006), known by his pen name S. Yizhar (Hebrew: ס. יזהר), was an Israeli writer and politician.
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Yizhar Smilansky was born in Rehovot to a family of writers. His great uncle was Israeli writer Moshe Smilansky. His father, Zev Zass Smilensky, was also a writer. After earning a degree in education, Yizhar taught in Yavniel, Ben Shemen, Hulda, and Rehovot.
From the end of the 1930s to the 1950s, Yizhar published short novellas, among them Ephraim Goes Back to Alfalfa, On the Edge of the Negev, The Wood on the Hill, A Night Without Shootings, Journey to the Evening's Shores, Midnight Convoy, as well as several collections of short stories. His pen name was given to him by the -
Sabrin Hasbun
Sabrin Hasbun is a Palestinian-Italian transnational writer. She has always had to mediate between cultures and every day for her is a journey across borders.
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Sabrin believes in the extremely generative power of collective creation and action and her research focuses on collaborative practices to explore histories of marginalised groups and decolonisation strategies. She has recently worked as writer, editor, translator, and trainer for several institutions around the world and published articles, both individual and collaborative, about collective creation in communities. She now works as a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Cardiff Met university, specialising in writing for liberated imaginations and alternative futures.
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Antoni Dudek
politolog i historyk. Pracownik naukowy Instytutu Nauk Politycznych i Stosunków Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego oraz Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej.
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W 1990 ukończył studia w Instytucie Nauk Politycznych i Stosunków Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego. W 1994 uzyskał doktorat z nauk politycznych na podstawie pracy dotyczącej polityki władz PRL wobec Kościoła katolickiego w latach 1956-1970. W 2004 habilitował się na Wydziale Studiów Międzynarodowych i Politycznych UJ na podstawie pracy Reglamentowana rewolucja. Rozkład dyktatury komunistycznej w Polsce 1988-1990 (2004). Od września 2000 pracował w Biurze Edukacji Publicznej Instytutu Pamięci Narodowej na stanowisku naczelnika Wydziału Badań Naukowych, Dokumentacji i Zbio -
John Lister-Kaye
Sir John Philip Lister Lister-Kaye, 8th Baronet, OBE (b. 1946) is an English naturalist, conservationist, author who is owner and director of the Aigas Field Centre, among other business interests. He is married with four children and has lived in the Highlands of Scotland since 1969.
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Milenko Bodirogić
Rođen 1964. Diplomirao na Filozofskom fakultetu u Novom Sadu, odsek jugoslovenska književnost. Za knjigu Prognana bića dobio je 2011. godine nagradu Politikinog Zabavnika („Najbolje delo namenjeno mladima“). Njegov roman Po šumama i gorama (2019) bio je u najužem izboru za NINovu nagradu. Živi u Novom Sadu.
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Ghayath Almadhoun
Ghayath Almadhoun (غياث المدهون) is a Palestinian poet born in Damascus in 1979 and moved to Sweden in 2008. He writes poetry and has been translated into nearly 30 languages. Currently, he lives between Berlin and Stockholm.
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Almadhoun has published five collections of poetry in Arabic, the latest being "Adrenaline" in 2017 and "I Brought You a Severed Hand" in 2024, both published in Arabic by Almutawassit in Milan.
In Sweden, he has been translated and published in two collections: Asylansökan, Ersatz, 2010, which was awarded the Klas de Vylders stipendiefond for immigrant writers. He has also written Till Damaskus, Albert Bonniers Förlag, 2014, together with the Swedish poet Marie Silkeberg. which was included in the literary critic list f -
Arita Baaijens
Arita Baaijens is ontdekkingsreizigster, schrijfster en fotograaf. Zij is lid van de oyal Geographical Society, de Explorers Club en de Long Riders Guild. Ze heeft ruim 25 woestijnexpedities op haar naam staan. In Mauretanië ontmoette ze de laatste vrouwelijke karavaangidsen, die in de vorige eeuw handelskaravanen door de Sahara begeleidden. In Arita's laatste boek Desert Songs blikt de ontdekkingsreizigster terug op de tochten die zij afgelopen twintig in Egypte en Soedan maakte. De reisboekhandels in Nederland kozen Desert Songs tot Beste reisfotoboek 2008. In september 2013 verscheen The Modern Explorers bij Thames & Hudson, met een hoofdstuk over de woestijnexpedities van Arita Baaijens.
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Verder verschenen van haar Oase Farafra (2003), o -
Robert Paul Wolff
Robert Paul Wolff was an American political philosopher and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Wolff has written widely on topics in political philosophy, including Marxism, tolerance (against liberalism and in favor of anarchism), political justification, and democracy. -
Mendele Mocher Sforim
Mendele Mocher Sforim (Yiddish: מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים, Hebrew: מנדלי מוכר ספרים, also known as Moykher, Sfarim; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich (Yiddish: שלום יעקב אַבראַמאָװיטש, Russian: Соломон Моисеевич Абрамович – Solomon Moiseyevich Abramovich) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.
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Yoram Kaniuk
Yoram Kaniuk (Hebrew: יורם קניוק) was an Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic.
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Hans Woller
Hans Woller (* 22. Februar 1952 in Aldersbach) ist ein deutscher Historiker. Er forscht vor allem über Themen der deutschen und italienischen Zeitgeschichte. Seine wissenschaftliche Biographie ist eng mit dem Münchner Institut für Zeitgeschichte verbunden.
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Woller studierte von 1972 bis 1979 Bayerische Geschichte, Neuere Geschichte, Germanistik und Politologie an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Nach der Promotion 1979 mit der Arbeit „Die Loritz-Partei: Geschichte, Struktur und Politik der Wirtschaftlichen Aufbau-Vereinigung (WAV) 1945–1955“ war er ab 1980 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Zeitgeschichte. 1985 folgte ein dreijähriger Aufenthalt am Deutschen Historischen Institut in Rom. Nach seiner Rückkehr 1988 ans In -
Aakash Singh Rathore
Aakash Singh Rathore is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India and Director of the International Research Network for Religion and Democracy (www.irnrd.org). He is also an International Fellow of the Center for Ethics and Global Politics in Rome, Italy.
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Lefteris Bouros
Ο Λευτέρης Μπούρος γεννήθηκε στην Αθήνα το 1989 και μεγάλωσε στο Αγρίνιο.
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Το 2014 πήρε πτυχίο από τη σχολή Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Μηχανικών Η/Υ του ΕΜΠ και από τότε ζει και εργάζεται στην Αθήνα.
Διηγήματά του έχουν βραβευθεί και εκδοθεί σε συλλογικούς τόμους.
Η πρώτη προσωπική του συλλογή με ιστορίες μυστηρίου (Ερασιτέχνες Δολοφόνοι, Εκδόσεις Πηγή) κυκλοφόρησε το 2018.
Ήταν υποψήφιος για το βραβείο νέου λογοτέχνη 2018 από το λογοτεχνικό περιοδικό Κλεψύδρα. -
Ethan Michaeli
Ethan Michaeli, the author of “Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel,” (Custom House Books, 2021), was praised by National Book Award-winner Evan Osnos as a “master portraitist—of lives, places, and cultures. His rendering of contemporary Israel crackles with energy, fueled by a historian’s vision and a journalist’s unrelenting curiosity.”
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Brent Staples, Pulitzer-Prize winner and member of The New York Times Editorial Board, described Ethan’s previous book, “The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America,” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) as “An extraordinary history…Deeply researched, elegantly written…a towering achievement that will not be soon forgotten.” “The Defender” won Best Non Fiction of 2016 prizes -
Mustafa Akyol
Mustafa Akyol lives in Istanbul and is a columnist for the Turkish newspapers Hürriyet Daily News and Star. He has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, and Newsweek.
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Miko Peled
Miko Peled is an Israeli peace activist, author, and karate instructor. His first book is The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine, and his most recent is Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five. He has travelled extensively, giving talks about his experiences to audiences across the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia.
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Born and raised in Jerusalem in 1961, Peled grew up in a prominent Zionist family; his grandfather, Avraham Katsnelson, signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence.His father, Mattityahu Peled, fought in the 1948 war and served as a general in the war of 1967; later, after the Israeli cabinet ignored his investigation of an 1967 Israeli war crime, he became a peace activist and leading proponent of an -
Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian writer. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi, India.
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His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalization. Billed as a modern-day Canterbury Tales, thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contemporary fairytales, mythic and surreal. The tales add up to a broad exploration of 21st century forms of life, which includes billionaires, film stars, migrant labourers, illegal immigrants and sailors. [1] Tokyo Cancelled was short -
Rhea Galanaki
Rhea Galanaki (Greek: Ρέα Γαλανάκη) is an author who was born in Heraklion, Crete in 1947. She studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens. She received the Novel Prize of the Greek state in 1999.
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Teresa Ibars Chimeno
Teresa Ibars Chimeno (Aitona, 1962) és llicenciada en Geografia i Història per la Universitat de Barcelona i especialista en història moderna. Inicialment, la seva investigació es va encaminar cap als diferents aspectes de la marginalitat a la ciutat de Lleida al segle XVII. La delinqüència a la Lleida del Barroc és el seu primer llibre. Posteriorment, com a conseqüència del seu ofici, ha treballat diferents aspectes de la història contemporània.
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Joan Todó
Joan Todó Cortiella (la Sénia, 2 d'abril de 1977) és un poeta i escriptor català. Va estudiar Teoria literària i Literatura comparada a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
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Un cop finalitzats els estudis va emprendre la seua carrera literària a Barcelona. De la seua experiència a la capital catalana en sorgeix el seu primer recull de poemes, Los fòssils (al ras) i també el seu primer llibre narratiu, A butxacades. Posteriorment també ha publicat El fàstic que us cega, un altre recull poètic.
n el seu llibre A butxacades, del 2011, va fer la seva aportació al gènere del conte en català, hi reunia una dotzena de narracions publicades, majoritàriament, a la revista digital 'Paper de vidre' entre el 2007 i el 2010. Va ser el primer volum de la c -
Israel Shahak
Israel Shahak (Hebrew: ישראל שחק; born Himmelstaub, April 28, 1933 – July 2, 2001) was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor and Israeli professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known especially as a liberal[1] political thinker, author, and civil rights activist.
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D. Hunter
D. Hunter labels himself "an ageing chav". He's the author of Chav Solidarity , a searing read that centres around his childhood of growing up underclass, drug abuse, prostitution and how the liberal left absolutely fails in its aims.
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Maxime Rodinson
Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist. He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing trader and his wife who both died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. After studying oriental languages, he became a professor of Ethiopian (Amharic) at EPHE (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France). He was the author of a rich body of work, including the book Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam.
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Rodinson joined the French Communist Party in 1937 for "moral reasons", but later turned away after the party's Stalinist drift. He was expelled from the party in 1958. He became well known in France when he expressed sharp criticism of Israel, particularly opposing the settlement policies of the Jewish state. Some credit him with coining the ter -
Lars Iyer
Lars Iyer is the author of the novel Wittgenstein Jr (2014). He has also written a trilogy of novels – Spurious, Dogma and Exodus. Iyer has also written two scholarly books on the work of Maurice Blanchot. He teaches philosophy at Newcastle University in the UK.
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Fawwaz Traboulsi
Associate professor of Political Science and History at the Lebanese American University, and the American University of Beirut. Dr. Traboulsi has been a visiting professor at New York University, the University of Michigan, Columbia University, and Cairo University, and a fellow at St. Antony’s College, Oxford, and the Wissenshaftskolleg, Berlin. His books, papers and articles have dealt with the history, politics, social movements, political philosophy, folklore, and art in the Arab World. Dr. Traboulsi’s translations include Edward Said’s Out of Place and Humanism and Democratic Critique. And his latest publication is A History of Modern Lebanon (in English and Arabic, 2007). Fawwaz Traboulsi, a long time journalist, is a columnist for a
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Doug Saunders
Doug Saunders (b. 1967) is a Canadian-British author and journalist.
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He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011) and The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and is the international-affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail.
He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions. -
Jen Lin-Liu
Jen Lin-Liu is the author of Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey Through China and the founder of the cooking school Black Sesame Kitchen in Beijing. She was raised in southern California, graduated from Columbia University, and went to China in 2000 on a Fulbright fellowship. A food critic for Time Out Beijing and the coauthor of Frommer’s Beijing, she has also written for Newsweek, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Saveur, and Food & Wine.
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Abbas El-Zein
Abbas El-Zein was born and raised in Beirut. He was twelve years old when the civil war broke out in 1975. He lived in Beirut through most of the war and, like many Lebanese of his generation, experienced shelling, car bombs, shootings and displacement. Although he came from a family of Shia religious scholars, he attended a French secular school and studied civil engineering at the American University of Beirut. He migrated to Australia in 1996.
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Abbas has written essays and short stories about war, identity and displacement for The New York Times, The Age, Meanjin, HEAT and Australian Book Review. His first novel was Tell the Running Water (Sceptre, 2001) and his second book was a memoir about growing up in Beirut called Leave to Remain (U -
Francesc Trabal
Francesc Trabal was born in Sabadell, Spain, in 1899, and passed away in Santiago, Chile, in 1957.
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Eric Storm
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