Raja Shehadeh
Raja Shehadeh (Arabic: رجا شحادة) is a Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and writer. He is the author of Strangers in the House (2002), described by The Economist as “distinctive and truly impressive”, When the Bulbul Stopped Singing (2003), Palestinian Walks (2007), for which he won the 2008 Orwell Prize, and A Rift in Time (2010). Shehadeh trained as a barrister in London and is a founder of the human rights organization Al-Haq. He blogs regularly for the International Herald Tribune/The New York Times and lives in Ramallah, on the West Bank.
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susan abulhawa was born to refugees of the 1967 war when Israel captured what remained of Palestine, including Jerusalem. She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her daughter. She is the founder and President of Playgrounds for Palestine, a children’s organization dedicated to upholding The Right to Play for Palestinian children. Her debut novel, Mornings in Jenin, was an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages. Her second novel, The Blue Between Sky and Water, was likewise a bestseller, translated into 20 languages. The reach of her books and volume of her readership have made abulhawa one of the most widely read Arab authors in the world. Her latest novel, Against the Loveless Wo -
Mark Mazower
Mark Mazower is a historian and writer, specializing in modern Greece, twentieth-century Europe, and international history. His books include Salonica City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430–1950, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize; Hitler’s Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe, winner of the 2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History; and Governing the World: The History of an Idea. He is currently the Ira D. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia University, and his articles and reviews on history and current affairs appear regularly in the Financial Times, the Guardian, London Review of Books, The Nation, and New Republic.
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Gideon Levy
Gideon Levy (Hebrew: גדעון לוי) is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories. In 2021, he won Israel's top award for journalism, the Sokolov Award.
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Tamim Al-Barghouti
Tamim Al-Barghouti (Arabic: تميم البرغوثي, born 1977, Cairo) is a Palestinian poet and political scientist,Al Barghouti writes poetry in Standard Arabic as well as the Palestinian, Egyptian and Iraqi colloquial dialects. He obtained a B.A. in Political Science at Cairo University in 1999, and specialized in International Relations at the American University in Cairo, from which he graduated in 2001. He received a PhD in political science from Boston University in 2004, and became an assistant professor at the American University in Cairo in 2005. During 2003 and 2004, he wrote a weekly column in the Lebanese Daily Star newspaper on colonialism and Arab history and identity.
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Nathan Thrall
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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.
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He is the principal political cartoonist for the Palestinian Authority's daily newspaper, Al-Hayat al-Jadida.
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After studying Archaeology & Anthropology at Oxford University, best-selling author and designer Sally Coulthard has spent the last twenty years designing, making and writing about homes, craft and outdoor spaces. She sees no boundary between the rules that govern good interior design and those which are needed to craft a spectacular studio or glorious garden.
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Keen to make good design accessible, she’s written over twenty books about restoring houses, designing interiors and outdoor living. From garden styles to craftsmanship, creating workspaces to building sheds, Sally’s books inspire, encourage and equip readers to take on projects of their own.
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Sherry Turkle
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Professor Turkle writes on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is an expert on mobile technology, social networking, and sociable robotics. Profiles of Professor Turkle have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American, and Wired Magazine. She has been named "woman of the -
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Sunaura Taylor
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Dick Hebdige
Richard 'Dick' Hebdige (born 1951) is an expatriate British media theorist and sociologist most commonly associated with the study of subcultures, and subcultural resistance against the mainstream of society.
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Hebdige received his M.A. from the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies in Birmingham, United Kingdom. He is best known for his influential book Subculture: The Meaning of Style, originally published in 1979. He has been teaching in art schools since the mid-1970s. He served as the Dean of Critical Studies and the Director of the experimental writing program at the California Institute of the Arts before going to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is currently a professor of film and media studies and art.
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Okechukwu Nzelu
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Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza Mehri is a poet and researcher working across criticism, education, and radio.
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She is a former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London, and columnist for Tate Etc, the arts magazine published by the Tate network of galleries. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Granta, POETRY, BOMB Magazine, Wasafiri, frieze, Art Review, and elsewhere.
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Meg-John Barker
Dr. Meg-John Barker is a writer, therapist, and activist-academic specialising in sex, gender and relationships. Their popular books include the (anti-)self-help relationship book Rewriting the Rules, The Secrets of Enduring Love (with Jacqui Gabb), Queer: A Graphic History (with Julia Scheele), and Enjoy Sex, How, When and If You Want To (with Justin Hancock). Meg-John is a senior lecturer in psychology at the Open University and has published many academic books and papers on topics including non-monogamous relationships, sadomasochism, counselling, and mindfulness, as well as co-founding the journal Psychology & Sexuality and the activist-research organisation BiUK. They were the lead author of The Bisexuality Report – which has informed
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Ghada Karmi
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Ghada still vividly remembers a huge bombing just behind her house in Jerusalem. "It was absolutely dreadful. I was bewildered, I was scared - I could see my parents were scared, which is very scary for a child because you think your parents know it all and they look after you. I knew, from that moment on, things had changed for us. I didn't know how, but things weren't going to be the same again."
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Lucy Ives
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Mosab Abu Toha
Mosab Abu Toha is the winner of a Palestine Book Award, an American Book Award, Walcott Poetry Prize, and also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
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He is a Palestinian poet, scholar, and librarian who was born in Gaza and has spent his life there. He is the founder of the Edward Said Library, Gaza’s first English-language library. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear is his debut book of poems. It won a 2022 Palestine Book Award and was named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry.
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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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Nathan Thrall
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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.
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reporter, redaktor, specjalizuje się w problematyce Europy Wschodniej i Górnego Śląska. Autor książek reporterskich Kajś. Opowieść o Górnym Śląsku (wyróżnionej Nagrodą Literacką Nike oraz Nike czytelników, nominowanej do Literackiej Nagrody Europy Środkowej Angelus, nagrody Ambasador Nowej Europy i Międzynarodowej Nagrody im. Witolda Pileckiego, a także przełożonej na język śląski) oraz Królowie strzelców. Piłka w cieniu imperium (książka została przełożona na język ukraiński, a spektakl na jej podstawie wystawiono w Teatrze Nowym w Zabrzu). Autor sztuk teatralnych Nikaj (Teatr Zagłębia, reż. Robert Talarczyk) i Weltmajstry (Teatr Korez, reż. Robert Talarczyk). Pochodzi z Gliwic, mieszka w Katowicach.
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Angela Y. Davis
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Adania Shibli
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Marc Lamont Hill
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He is currently the host of BET News and VH1 Live, as well as a political contributor for CNN. An award-winning journalist, Dr. Hill has received numerous prestigious awards from the National Association of Black Journalists, GLAAD, and the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Hill is Distinguished Professor of African American Studies at Morehouse College. Prior to that, he held positions at Columbia University and Temple University.
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Leila Guerriero
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Wojciech Tochman
Reporter, non-fiction writer. He has twice been shortlisted for the NIKE Literary Prize and has won the Polish Book Publishers Association Award.
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He began his career as a reporter at the youth weekly Na przełaj before leaving school, and soon after he joined the first reporting team at "Gazeta Wyborcza". His reports from this period were published in a book, Stairs Don’t Burn (2000, 2006). Before he got his masters degree at Warsaw University he went to Bosnia with a convoy organised by humanitarian aid worker Janina Ochojska. He then went back to the Balkans repeatedly for many years, and the book Like Eating A Stone is the result of those journeys. His next book was Dear Daughter (2005), the moving account of his efforts to find out what h -
Ilan Pappé
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Norman G. Finkelstein
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Colum McCann is the author of three collections of short stories and six novels, including "Apeirogon," published in Spring 2020. His other books include "TransAtlantic," "Let the Great World Spin," "This Side of Brightness,""Dancer" and “Zoli,” all of which were international best-sellers.
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Susan Sontag
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Eric J. Hobsbawm
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Darryl Cooper
Darryl Cooper is a storyteller of shadows and fault lines, weaving history, ideology, and human nature into long-form narratives that feel both ancient and urgent. Through his podcast MartyrMade, he unearths the buried tensions beneath revolutions, religions, and empires—inviting listeners into the minds of true believers and the heart of collective memory. His work is as much meditation as it is investigation, drawing listeners down the dark corridors where ideas ignite and civilizations tremble.
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Tom Segev
Tom Segev (Hebrew: תום שגב) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's so-called New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.
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Caroline Lucas
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Chris Packham
Chris Packham is a British naturalist and TV presenter and is well known for his many BBC television series since the days of The Really Wild Show through to Springwatch. He is an award winning photographer and writer, whose career has revolved around promoting public awareness of wildlife and conservation for more than 25 years. He continues to be a part of pioneering natural history television, such as Secrets of our Living Planet, Inside the Animal Mind and Operation Iceberg.
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Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat is a is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney.
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Her research interests include human rights law, humanitarian law, national security law, refugee law, social justice, and critical race theory.
She is the author of Justice for Some: Law as Politics in the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019).
She is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University, specializing in international studies and is a Co-Founding Editor of Jadaliyya, an electronic magazine on the Middle East that combines scholarly expertise and local knowledge.
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Thomas Orchowski
Thomas Orchowski (ur. 1992) – dziennikarz radia TOK FM specjalizujący się w tematyce zagranicznej. Publikował m.in. w „Gazecie Wyborczej”, „Polityce” i „Tygodniku Powszechnym”. Autor książek reporterskich "Wyspa trzech ojczyzn. Reportaż z podzielonego Cypru" i "Rzeź na Tarlabaşi. Opowieść o nowej Turcji". Absolwent Polskiej Szkoły Reportażu.
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Arash Azizi
I write and flaneur. I live in New York.
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Brian M. Fagan
Brian Murray Fagan was a British author of popular archaeology books and a professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell, CC is a reknowned Canadian musician, songwriter, and painter.
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Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani (born 24 October 1948) is a Singaporean academic and former diplomat. He is currently Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore.
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From 1971 to 2004 he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was Singapore's Permanent Representative to the United Nations. In that role, he served as President of the United Nations Security Council in January 2001 and May 2002.
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Carolyn Steedman
Carolyn Kay Steedman, FBA (born 20 March 1947) is a British historian, specialising in the social and cultural history of modern Britain and exploring labour, gender, class, language and childhood. Since 2013, she has been Emeritus Professor of History at University of Warwick, where she had previously been a Professor of History since 1999.
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Steedman graduated from the University of Sussex with an undergraduate degree in English and American Studies in 1968, and then completed a master's degree at Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1974. She was a teacher from then until 1982, when she joined the Institute of Education in the University of London as a researcher; for the 1983–84 year, she was a Fellow there, before lecturing at the University o -
Marcin Kącki
Marcin Kącki (ur. 1976) – reporter, redaktor „Dużego Formatu”, zajmuje się reportażem społecznym i historycznym. Zdobywca tytułu Dziennikarza Roku w konkursie Grand Press 2007, dwóch nagród „Watergate” przyznawanych przez Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich, nagrody Grand Press w kategorii „Dziennikarstwo śledcze” oraz nagrody studentów dziennikarstwa MediaTory. Autor książek Lepperiada, Maestro. Historia milczenia, Białystok. Biała siła, czarna pamięć, za którą był nominowany do Nagrody Literackiej Nike oraz do nagrody MediaTory, Plaża za szafą oraz powieści Fak maj lajf. Jego ostatnia książka Poznań. Miasto grzechu została nominowana do Nagrody im. Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego za Reportaż Literacki. Jest również autorem sztuki teatralnej Wróg
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Sonia Faleiro
Sonia Faleiro is the author of Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars and a novella, The Girl. Her new book, The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing will be published in 2021.
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The New York Times hailed Beautiful Thing as ‘an intimate and valuable piece of reportage that will break your heart several times over.’ The book was an Observer, Guardian, and Economist Book of the Year, Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year, CNN Mumbai Book of the Year, and The Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year, 2011. It has been published worldwide and translated into several languages.
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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. -
Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Lois-Ann Yamanaka is the author of Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers, Blu's Hanging, Heads by Harry, Name Me Nobody, Father of the Four Passages, The Heart's Language, and Behold the Many. Her work has received numerous awards including the Hawai'i Award for Literature, the American Book Award, the Children's Choice for Literature, the Pushcart Prize for poetry, and Yamanaka was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
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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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Giacomo Matteotti
Giacomo Matteotti (22 May 1885 – 10 June 1924) was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Italian fascists committed fraud in the 1924 Italian general election, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later, he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists.
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Rawya Jarjoura Burbara
Rawya Jarjoura Barbara is a Palestinian editor and writer, born in Nazareth, and works as a focus inspector for the Arabic language in the Ministry of Education in Israel.
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She was born in the city of Nazareth on November 27, 1969 to a Nasrawi family. She got married and moved to live with her family in the village of Abu Sinan in the western Galilee of the country.
She completed her secondary education at the Seminary of St. Joseph (Bishop) Seminary in Nazareth in 1987. In 1994 she completed her BA in Arabic Language and Education and Teaching Methods at Haifa University. In 2004 she received her MA with distinction from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Arabic Language, Haifa University. She obtained her PhD in Arabic literature in a thesis -
Julietta Singh
Julietta Singh is Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She is a writer and academic who works at the intersections of postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018), and No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018). Her academic writing has been published in leading cultural theory journals including South Atlantic Quarterly, Cultural Critique, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Symploke, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Her creative work has appeared in venues such as American Poetry Review, Animal Shelter, Prairie Fire, Social Text, and Women & Performance.
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Justin Marozzi
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Justin is a travel writer, historian, journalist and political risk and security consultant. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East and Muslim world and in recent years has worked in conflict and post-conflict environments such as Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. He graduated from Cambridge with a Starred Double First in History in 1993, before studying Broadcast Journalism at Cardiff University and winning a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania to read a Masters in International Relations. After working in the BBC World Service on ‘News Hour’ and BBC Westminster on ‘Today in Parliament’, he joined the Financial Times as a foreign correspondent in Manila, where he also wrote f -
Richard Shaw
Richard Shaw is Professor of Politics at Massey University whose research is published in leading international journals. He is a regular commentator on political issues.
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Haidar Eid
Haidar Eid is an acclaimed critic and Associate prof. of Cultural Studies and Literature at Gaza's al-Aqsa University in Palestine. He has written widely on the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is a policy adviser with Al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network. He is also a member of PACBI.
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Natasza Goerke
Natasza Goerke was born in Poznan in 1960. She studied Polish at Mickiewicz University in Poznan and Oriental Languages at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. She has had four books published in Polish (her latest was nominated for the prestigious Nike Prize) and collections in German, Slovak, and Croatian translation. In addition, her stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies both in Poland and in the Polish emigre press as well as in translation, including The Eagle and the Crow (Serpent's Tail, 1996), an anthology of contemporary Polish literature. In the mid-80s she emigrated from Poland. After having lived for a time in Asia, she took up residence in Germany and now lives in Hamburg. In 1993 she received the Czas Kultu
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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 -
Parakala Prabhakar
Parakala Prabhakar is an Indian political economist and social commentator. He served as Communications Advisor, held a cabinet rank position in Andhra Pradesh Government between July 2014 and June 2018. For several years he presented a current affairs discussion programme on television channels of Andhra Pradesh.
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Parakala was born in a prominent Telugu Brahmin family in Narsapuram, Andhra Pradesh. His mother, Parakala Kalikamba was a Member of Legislative Assembly in Andhra Pradesh, while his father, Parakala Seshavatharam, was a long time Legislator and served in three successive Cabinets in the state of Andhra Pradesh in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Parakala completed his doctorate from the London School of Economics. He did his Master of A -
Sebastian Horsley
Sebastian Horsley was a London artist best known for having undergone a voluntary crucifixion. Horsley's writings often revolve around his dysfunctional family, his drug addictions, sex, and his reliance on prostitutes. He died of a heroin overdose.
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Michelle Kuo
Michelle Kuo is the author of the memoir READING WITH PATRICK, a story of race, inequality, and the transformative power of literature. The book was a runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Reading Women Award, and shortlisted for Goddard Riverside Stephen Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. It has been honored as a community reads pick at programs across the United States, including Washtenaw Reads, University of Iowa Center for Human Rights, and Yale Prison Education Initiative.
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Michelle has taught English at an alternative school in the rural town of Helena, Arkansas, located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta.
After graduating from Harvard Law, she became an immigrants’ rights lawyer at Centro Legal de la Raza, a nonprofit i -
Ted Morgan
Born Saint-Charles Armand Gabriel de Gramont*, he used the name Sanche de Gramont as his byline (and also on his books) during the early part of his career. He worked as a journalist for many years, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 for local reporting written under pressure of a deadline. He first came to the United States in 1937, and became a naturalized citizen in February 1977, at which time he had his name legally changed to Ted Morgan. He was a National Book Award finalist in 1982 for Maugham: A Biography.
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*His father was a military pilot who died in an accident in 1943, at which point he inherited the title "Comte de Gramont". He was properly styled "Saint-Charles Armand Gabriel, Comte de Gramont" until he renounced his titl -
Amanda Kolson Hurley
Amanda Kolson Hurley is a writer who specializes in architecture and urban planning and a senior editor at CityLab. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Architect magazine, The American Scholar, and many other publications. She lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
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Walid Jumblatt Abdullah
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah is a PhD candidate under the Joint Degree Program between National University of Singapore and King's College, London. He works on state and religion relations, Southeast Asian politics, and political parties and elections. His works have been published in journals including Asian Survey, Journal of Church and State, and Government and Opposition.
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Sabeeha Rehman
Sabeeha Rehman, an author, blogger and speaker on the American Muslim experience. Her new book is titled, 'It's Not What You Think. An American Woman in Saudi Arabia,' published in 2022.
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She has co-authored with Walter Ruby of the book: We Refuse to be Enemies. How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace, One Friendship at a Time. It was published in April 2021.
She is the author of the memoir 'Threading My Prayer Rug', an account of growing up in Pakistan, her rushed arranged marriage to a Pakistani doctor and their lives together raising a Muslim family in New York City.
Short-listed for the 2018 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, Threading My Prayer Rug also won Booklist and San Francisco Book Festival honors. Readers Digest mention -
Bane Prelević
Branislav "Bane" Prelević is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and coach.
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Peter Abrahams
Peter Abrahams was a South African-born Jamaican novelist, journalist and political commentator.
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Sergei Medvedev
Sergei Alexandrovich Medvedev is a Russian historian, journalist, television and radio presenter, and writer. He has worked as a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, at the Marshall Center for Security Studies in Germany, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs in Helsinki, the Istituto Affari Internazionali in Rome, and the Institute of Europe in Moscow.
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Medvedev won the 2020 Pushkin Book Prize for his book The Return of the Russian Leviathan. The book was translated by Stephen Dalziel, and was widely praised in the US and UK. -
William Cooper
William Cooper is the author of The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld: A Novel. An attorney and national columnist, his writings have appeared in hundreds of publications globally including The New York Times, CNN, and Newsweek. He hosts the “Books and More” podcast. Publishers Weekly calls his commentary about American politics “a compelling rallying cry for democratic institutions under threat in America.” Visit him online at will-cooper.com.
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Veikka Lahtinen
Veikka Lahtinen is a freelance journalist, researcher, and book lover based in Helsinki, Finland.
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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 -
Heba Hayek
Heba Hayek is a London-based writer born and raised in Gaza, Palestine. She completed an MFA in Creative Writing at Miami University, Ohio, and is studying for an MA in Social Anthropology at SOAS University of London.
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Siddhartha Deb
Siddhartha Deb is an Indian author who was educated in India and at Columbia University, US. Deb began his career in journalism as a sports journalist in Calcutta in 1994 before moving to Delhi to continue regular journalism.
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Arjun Appadurai
Arjun Appadurai is an Indian-American anthropologist recognized as a major theorist in globalization studies. In his anthropological work, he discusses the importance of the modernity of nation states and globalization
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Bernard E. Harcourt
Bernard Harcourt is the Julius Kreeger Professor of Law & Criminology and Chair and Professor of Political Science at The University of Chicago.
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Professor Harcourt's scholarship intersects social and political theory, the sociology of punishment, criminal law and procedure, and criminology. He is the author of Against Prediction: Punishing and Policing in an Actuarial Age (University of Chicago Press 2007), Language of the Gun: Youth, Crime, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press 2005), and Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken-Windows Policing (Harvard University Press 2001). Harcourt is also the coauthor of Criminal Law and the Regulation of Vice (Thompson West 2007), the editor of Guns, Crime, and Punishment in America (N -
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.
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Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping. Initially as spokesperson, and then as President, of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), Saro-Wiwa led a nonviolent campaign against environmental degradation of the land and waters of Ogoniland by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially -
Peter Harris
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Peter Harris practiced law in South Africa for 15 years before being seconded to the National Peace Accord in the early 1990s. He headed the Monitoring Directorate of the Independent Electoral Commission for the 1994 election and is currently Executive Chairman of the Resolve Group Management Consultancy, which he co-founded. -
Joseph Stromberg
Joseph Stromberg is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and has held the JoAnn B. Rothbard chair in history at the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He received his BA and MA from Florida Atlantic University, and his further graduate work was completed at the University of Florida.
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Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton has written six books and has edited two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories, The Outer Harbour, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and he won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011. His work has been a finalist for three other City of Vancouver Book Awards as well as the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Compton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria.
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Faik Konica
Faik Konica (March 15, 1875 – December 15, 1942), born in Konitsa, was one of the greatest figures of Albanian culture in the early decades of the twentieth century. Prewar Albanian minister to Washington, his literary review, Albania, became the focal publication of Albanian writers living abroad. Faik Konica wrote little in the way of literature, but as a stylist, critic, publicist and political figure he had a tremendous impact on Albanian writing and on Albanian culture at the time.
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Konica was born on March 15, 1875 in the town of Konitsa, Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire, now in northern Greece, not far from the present Albanian border. After elementary schooling in Turkish in his native village, he studied at the Xavierian Shkodër Jesuit -
G.N. Devy
Ganesh N. Devy, formerly professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, a renowned literary critic and activist is founder and director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, and director of the Sahitya Akademi’s Project on Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Traditions. He was educated at Shivaji University, Kolhapur and the University of Leeds, UK. Among his many academic assignments, he has held fellowships at Leeds and Yale Universities and has been a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow (1994-96).
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Currently (2002 - 2007), he is a Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Commmunication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar.
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He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for `After Amnesia', and the SAAR -
Nicole Zelniker
Nicole Zelniker (she/they) is the indie author of several books, including FROM WHERE WE ARE, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and the newly published ALL I KNOW SO FAR. She’s also the founder of Knee Brace Press, which is an online literary magazine devoted to stories about disability and mental health.
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In her free time, Nicole enjoys re-reading her favorite books, talking about the intersection of queerness and chronic illness on the internet, and cuddling her formerly semi-feral tabby cat. You can keep up with them on TikTok at @nicolewritesbooks or Threads, Bluesky, and Instagram at @nicolezelniker.