Contributors
Randomizer (219)Most progressive periodicals emphasize words over images. Not Souciant. Randomizer is a column devoted to our love for political visu...
Bilal Ahmed (217)Bilal Ahmed is a writer and activist. He is currently preparing for his dissertation, which will compare tribal structures, and state relati...
Charlie Bertsch (167)Charlie Bertsch lives in Tucson, Arizona. A founding editor and regular contributor to one of the world's first online magazines, Bad Subje...
Josh White (165)Josh White is an associate editor at Souciant. A philosophy graduate, White wrote his thesis on Marx’s theory of history and internati...
Mitchell Plitnick (137)Mitchell Plitnick is the former Director of the US Office of B'Tselem and was previously the Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. He is a wi...
John Foster (96)John Foster is a librarian, writer, and musician based in Cleveland, Ohio. When not writing or attending shows, he can usually be found cur...
Joel Schalit (91)Joel Schalit is the author of Israel vs. Utopia, and Jerusalem Calling. He has edited some of America's most influential magazines including ...
Anonymous (90)Anonymous is a Jewish educator who lives in northern Israel. He has taught at several Israeli and European universities, and has written nume...
Magadh (74)Magadh is a teacher, writer, and musician based in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the co-editor of A Thousand Trivialities, a blog devoted to p...
Joe Lockard (64)Joe Lockard is an associate professor of English at Arizona State University, where he directs the Antislavery Literature Project. His latest ...
Paul Mutter (36)Paul Mutter is a foreign policy blogger on leave from the NYU Arthur L. Carter Institute of Journalism. He contributes to PBS Tehran Bureau,...
Ari Paul (36)Ari Paul is a journalist in New York City and has covered politics for the Nation, the Guardian, the Brooklyn Rail, VICE News, the New ...
Jennifer Crakow (30)Jennifer Crakow has been a consistent innovator in the field of application design for web, mobile devices, and television for clients inclu...
Leshu Torchin (30)Leshu Torchin is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, where she works on the subject of film and human rights advocacy....
Oliver Sheppard (30)Oliver Sheppard is a DJ, writer, sometime-musician, and otherwise professional luftmensch currently in Texas. He ran Cultpunk.com, the radio ...
Keith Kahn-Harris (26)Keith Kahn-Harris is a London-based sociologist, teacher, writer and Jewish communal activist. He is the author of Extreme Metal: Music...
Boombox (24)We didn't create it. We didn't curate it. But we sure like it. Found sounds and criticism, courtesy of the Souciant Online Music Apprecia...
Patrick Worms (23)When Patrick gets tired of working at his Waterloo, Belgium home, he either picks up a spade or goes to the airport. There's always a cr...
Maxim Edwards (23)Maxim Edwards is an Editorial Assistant at openDemocracy Russia. He has worked in Armenia and Tatarstan and writes on inter-ethnic...
Sticking Points (21)Straight and to the point. Visual politics in the English-speaking world. A group column, by Souciant and friends.
Paul Simon (21)Paul Simon is pursuing a master's degree in North American Studies at the University of Leipzig. He thinks America is the most entertai...
Yoni Kroll (20)Yoni Kroll was born in Jerusalem and lives in Philadelphia. He spends most of his time perfecting his falafel recipe. He also enjoys going to...
Joe Glenton (19)Joe Glenton is a journalist covering war, defence and security. He was a British soldier for six years, serving in Afghanistan. He has written...
Emanuel Stoakes (18)Emanuel Stoakes is a UK-based independent journalist and researcher. His areas of interest are human rights, conflict resolution, social just...
Hashem Osseiran (14)Hashem Osseiran is the deputy managing editor of Syria Deeply. He has previously written for The Arab Weekly and The Daily Star, and...
Missed the Gig (14)Missed the Gig is a group column. Consisting of photos of gig flyers from around the world, its purpose is to highlight the role that con...
Mya Guarnieri (14)Mya Guarnieri is a Tel Aviv-based journalist and writer. She is a regular contributor to Al-Jazeera English, 972 Magazine, and The Huffin...
Kim Nicolini (13)Kim Nicolini is an artist, poet and cultural critic living in Tucson, Arizona. Her writing has appeared in Bad Subjects, Punk Planet, CounterP...
Tomasz Kitlinski (11)Tomasz Kitlinski is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Sociology, Marie Curie University, Lublin. He is an activist on behalf of l...
Ron Nachmann (11)Ron Nachmann is a writer, editor, and producer in San Francisco. He contributes to Dangerous Minds [www.dangerousminds.net] and has written...
Zack Furness (11)Zack Furness is a Communications professor at Penn State Greater Allegheny and the author and editor of several books, including One Less ...
Eric Swedlund (10)Eric Swedlund is a writer, photographer and editor living in Tucson, Arizona. A former award-winning daily newspaper reporter, he specialize...
Steven Rubio (10)Steven Rubio has been a fast-food employee, steelworker, student, and teacher, but his goal has always been to be retired. His blog, St...
TV Eye (10)TV Eye is a shared pseudonym for a revolving cast of Souciant editorial staff members. Politically complex television images are TV Eye's sub...
Helena Bedwell (10)Helena is a graduate of the London School of Journalism. Her early career was as a television reporter for broadcasters such as Al-Jazeera, Ru...
Cameron Macdonald (9)Cameron Macdonald is the news editor of the Elk Grove Citizen newspaper. He has also contributed music stories, interviews, and reviews to XL...
Karl Marx (9)Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German Jewish philosopher, best known as the founder of Communism.
Preethi Nallu (9)Preethi Nallu is the managing editor of Refugees Deeply. Born in Iran and raised in India, she has reported on global displacement in a variet...
Annia Ciezadlo (8)Annia Ciezadlo is a Senior Editor at Syria Deeply. She has been living and reporting in the Middle East since 2003, focusing on the politic...
Matt Rubenstein (8)Matt Rubenstein is a classical pianist living in Berlin. He has recorded the works of modern German composers for Berlin Classics and the...
Jimmy Chen (8)Jimmy Chen lives in San Francisco. He also contributes at Htmlgiant, Thought Catalog, Bygone Bureau, and Splice Today. He is an Asian-Cana...
Hannah Schalit (8)Hannah Schalit was born in Jerusalem in 1924. When peace broke out after WWII, she studied speech and drama in London. When the State of Is...
Dan Friedman (8)Dan Friedman is managing editor of the Forward. Among other venues he has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall St...
Dan Glass (8)Dan Glass is an award-winning activist, performer and writer. An educator from Training for Transformation born out of the Anti-Apart...
Joanna Steinhardt (7)Joanna Steinhardt is a freelance writer in the Bay Area. Recipient of a Master's degree in Cultural Studies from Hebrew University, Steinh...
Danielle Sottosanti (7)Danielle Sottosanti is a full-time journalist in New York City. Her work has appeared in FTfm (a Financial Times publication), Ignites, Fund...
Farah (6)Farah (a pen name) is a young Syrian woman who lives in Syria’s capital city Damascus with her family.
Raz Mesinai (6)Raz Mesinai (Badawi, Sub Dub, ROIR Records) founded the Underground Producers Alliance, with a roster of mentors including HPrizm (Anti...
Courtney Utt (6)Courtney Utt is an award-winning visual designer and brand strategist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The longtime chief book designer...
Anahita Rouzbeh (5)Anahita Rouzbeh graduated from Cornell University. Her areas of research are urban collective memories, events and public space with concentra...
Alessandria Masi (5)Alessandria is the managing editor of Syria Deeply. She is a native of Montreal, Canada and lives in Beirut.
Neil Wiernik (5)Toronto's Neil Wiernik has released music on Noise Factory, Paper+Sound (as NAW), on Elevation Recordings, and soon, on BlRR, for post-...
Xaven Taner (5)Xaven Taner is chap in his early 30s living in West London. Contact him at xaventaner@hotmail.com.
Shai Ginsburg (5)Shai Ginsburg teaches Israeli Cultural Studies at Duke University. He works on modern Jewish politics and ideologies ,and publishes on literat...
Shirin Barghi (5)Shirin Barghi is an Iranian journalist, photographer and soon-to-be graduate of New York University. She has more than three years of journa...
Sam Watt (5)Sam Watt is from Glasgow, where he once upon a time studied philosophy. He is now based in Berlin, where he has been involved in various so...
Lloyd Center (5)Big in Portland since the mid-sixties. He had something to do with the beginnings of the K, Sub Pop, Up and Cabin Games labels.
Ahmad Zaza (4)Ahmad Zaza is a Syrian journalist based in Istanbul.
Armen Georgian (4)Armen Georgian's writing springs from his multiple identities; Russian, Armenian, British and European. Born in Moscow, he spent his forma...
Kim Bode (4)Kim Bode is the community editor of Syria Deeply and Refugees Deeply, working at the intersection of strategy, editorial and product. Born...
Arthur Neslen (4)Arthur Neslen is the author of In your eyes a sandstorm (University of California Press, 2011) and Occupied Minds (Pluto, 2006.) He has worked...
Spencer Sunshine (4)Spencer Sunshine lives in Brooklyn and writes about anarchist intellectual history, as well as contemporary far-right and anti-semitic polit...
Robert Palmer (4)Robert Palmer was killed in the Battle of Um el Hannah, in 1916, at the age of 27. Letters from Mesopotamia, a collection of his correspond...
A.M. Gittlitz (4)A.M. GITTLITZ is a Brooklyn based zinester, freelance journalist, fiction writer, and delivery boy. His work focuses on the topic...
Mel Plant (4)Mel Plant is a student of Arabic and Turkish at SOAS, University of London. She is also editor-in-chief of The SOAS Spirit. Her research inter...
Sarmad Al Jilane (3)Sarmad is a founding member of the activist-run Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently media outlet. He left RBSS in early 2017 and joined Sound...
David Watson (3)David was born in Yorkshire to a Scottish mother and a Geordie father. At the age of seven, his family moved to London, where he now li...
Witold Pilecki (3)Witold Pilecki was the founder of the Secret Polish Army (Tajna Armia Polska) resistance group in German-occupied Poland. He is the autho...
Tate Williams (3)Tate Williams is a freelance writer, editor and nonprofit fundraiser. After growing up in the suburbs of Phoenix, he attended the Universit...
Ida Laura Pfeiffer (3)Ida Laura Pfeiffer (14 October 1797, Vienna – 27 October 1858, Vienna), was an Austrian traveler and travel book author. She was one of...
Vance Galloway (3)Vance Galloway is a media technician and musician based in Seattle, Washington. From running live sound for seminal clubs such as DC's 9:30 ...
Helen Campbell (3)Helen Campbell (born Helen Stuart; July 5, 1839 – July 22, 1918) was a social reformer and pioneer in the field of home economics. She w...
Behzad Yaghmaian (3)Behzad Yaghmaian is a professor of political economy at Ramapo College of New Jersey. His books include Embracing the Infidel: Stories of Mu...
Nauman Naqvi (3)Nauman Naqvi has a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University, and is an Assistant Professor in the founding faculty of the Habib Univer...
Cristina Roca (2)Cristina Roca is a freelance journalist based in Barcelona. Her work has appeared in Maclean’s, the National Post and other publications. Sh...
Paul Buhle (2)Paul Buhle’s latest books are comics: Bohemians and Abraham Lincoln for Beginners (January, 2015). He admits to having been Labor/M...
Asmaa Tayeh (2)Asmaa is an English literature student at Gaza's Al-Azhar University. She was born in Gaza and lives in a refugee camp called Jabalia in nort...
John L. Spivak (2)John Louis Spivak (June 13, 1897 – September 30, 1981) was an American socialist and later communist reporter and author, who wrote about...
Dada Schling (2)Dada Schling is a Queer activist, born and bred in East London to Jewish-Czech immigrants. She combines her nursing with a wide rang...
London Palestine Action (2)London Palestine Action is a network of people in London taking creative action against the Israeli military occupation, through direct act...
Youmna al-Dimashqi (2)Youmna al-Dimashqi is an independent Syrian freelance journalist and a regular Syria Deeply contributor.
Jacob Gould Schurman (2)Jacob Gould Schurman (May 22, 1854 – August 12, 1942) was a Canadian-born educator and diplomat, who served as President of Cornell Univer...
Dadabase (2)Dadabase is the pseudonym of a well-respected political analyst, whose work has appeared everywhere.
Eline Gordts (2)Eline Gordts is News Deeply's Community Editor. She's on Twitter at @elinegordts.
Doug Greene (2)Doug Greene is an independent historian living in the greater Boston area. He is the author of Specters of Communism, on the French commu...
Herbert Strang (2)Herbert Strang was the pseudonym of two English authors, George Herbert Ely (1866–1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867–1947). ...
Lewis R. Freeman (2)Lewis Ransome Freeman (1878- 1960) was an American explorer, journalist and war correspondent who wrote over twenty books chronicling his ...
Josh Kitto (2)Josh Kitto is a blogger and freelance writer based in London. He specialises in British and American politics, with an occasional focus on q...
Nour Samaha (2)Nour Samaha is a freelance journalist based in Beirut. She has been covering the region for over a decade, and has reported from Lebanon, Sy...
Iraq Study Group (2)The Iraq Study group was a ten-person bipartisan panel appointed on March 15, 2006, by the United States Congress, that was charged with asses...
Rio Goldhammer (2)Rio Goldhammer was born in London, England, and grew up in Yorkshire. He is a musician best known as the singer for Bradford post-punk band 1...
Jeff Halper (2)Jeff Halper is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD). He is the author of War Against the People: Israel,...
Alexandra Bradford (2)Alexandra Bradford covers war, conflicts and humanitarian issues in the Middle East for English print. Follow her work at alexandrabradford...
Marah (2)Marah (a pen name) is a teenage girl who lived in one of Syria's besieged neighborhoods before fleeing the country in 2016. She now live...
Haneen Abed Elnaby (2)Haneen is studying English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza. One of her main loves is to read books, and her favourite is the no...
Greg Barnhisel (2)Greg Barnhisel is associate professor of English at Duquesne University and author of James Laughlin, New Directions, and the Remaking of ...
Arun Gupta (2)Arun Gupta is a founding editor of the Indypendent magazine and was a founding editor of the Occupy Wall Street Journal. He has been publi...
Steven Michels (2)Steven Michels is associate professor of political science at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT and the author of The Case aga...
Holly Dagres (2)Holly Dagres is an Iranian American analyst and commentator on Middle East affairs. Currently living in Egypt, she is the assistant editor at...
Mark Sussman (2)Mark Sussman is a writer and a doctoral candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He teaches American literature at Hunter College...
Mark LeVine (2)Mark LeVine is a professor of modern Middle Eastern history at the University of California at Irvine, is a distinguished visiting professo...
Byron Diel (2)Byron H. Diel is the percussionist of Respectable Citizen. A paramedic at American Ambulance, he is currently studying chemistry at Fresno ...
Brock Craft (2)Brock is a teacher, tinkerer, and ex-phone phreak, based in London - though he is originally genuine Texas white trash. Now he brings home...
Anne Elizabeth Moore (2)Anne Elizabeth Moore is a Fulbright scholar, artist, and the author of Unmarketable (New Press 2007) and Cambodian Grrrl: Self-Publishing in P...
Richard Anderson (2)Richard Anderson is a “user/customer experience” practice, management, and organizational strategy consultant, teacher, commentator,...
Kevin C. Moore (2)Kevin C. Moore is a lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned a PhD in English from UCLA, wher...
Ari Paul and Michael Brooks (2)Michael Brooks is a contributor and producer on the Majority Report, host of INTERSECTION on Aslan Media and his writing has appeared in...
Beatrice Bostrow (1)Beatrice Bostrow, the author of The Cult of Influence (1912), was an American journalist and labour activist.
Nicholas Van Hear (1)Nicholas Van Hear is deputy director at COMPAS, the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society. He works on forced migration, conflict, developm...
Wladimir van Wilgenburg (1)Wladimir van Wilgenburg is an analyst of Kurdish politics for the Jamestown Foundation and a freelance journalist. He is currently reporting ...
Haneen Abo Soad (1)Haneen, 24, studied secretarial skills at Al-Aqsa University, but then got married at the age of 19--too young, she says--and quickly had...
Gaja Pellegrini-Bettoli (1)Gaja Pellegrini-Bettoli is a freelance journalist based in Beirut. She has been a frequent guest on Italy’s Mediaset TV channels with commen...
Charles Davis (1)Charles Davis is a writer in Los Angeles who has reported from Central and South America for outlets such as Al-Jazeera, The Nation and The...
Francois Crepeau (1)Francois Crepeau is the United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer professor in pu...
Rhianna Louise (1)Rhianna Louise manages Education and Outreach at ForcesWatch, a UK organisation that monitors and challenges militarisation and scrutinizes...
Swati Mehta (1)Swati Mehta is a German Chancellor fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working on financial inclusion for forcibly displaced pers...
Housen Akoush and Nawar Oliver (1)Housen Akoush is a Syrian journalist. Nawar Oliver is a military researcher and a military mapper and analyst at Omran Center, a think tank b...
Willem Staes (1)Willem Staes (@willemstaes) works as a researcher at Belgian NGO 11.11.11, focusing on the Syria crisis and the situation in Israel/Palest...
Ilaria Sesana (1)Ilaria Sesana is an Italian freelance journalist who specializes in migration stories. She can be found on Twitter @ilariasesana.
Loubna Mrie and Ahmad Zaza (1)Loubna Mrie is a Syrian activist and photojournalist. She is currently based in New York City, where she is a researcher on Syrian and Mi...
Jeffery Farnol (1)Jeffery Farnol (10 February 1878 – 9 August 1952) was a British writer from 1907 until his death, known for writing more than 40 romance nov...
Dr. David Beversluis (1)Dr. David Beversluis worked with Doctors Without Borders on board the Aquarius from June to August and is an assistant professor of internati...
Anna Lekas Miller (1)Anna Lekas Miller is an Istanbul-based journalist, and has been covering the refugee crisis for the past three years. Follow her on Twit...
Rachel Wilson (1)Rachel Wilson is an immigration lawyer in Tucson, Arizona. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Belgorod, Russia. You can follow he...
Hiba Dlewati and Nawar Oliver (1)Hiba Dlewati is a print and multimedia journalist from Damascus, Syria and the assistant managing editor of Syria Deeply. Born in Michigan...
Mya Guarnieri Jaradat and Joel Schalit (1)Mya Guarnieri Jaradat is the author of The Unchosen: The Lives of Israel's New Others (Pluto Press) and has contributed to numerous publicat...
Mike Cole (1)Mike Cole is Professor in Education at the University of East London and author of New Development in Critical Race Theory in Educat...
Cory Rodgers (1)Cory Rodgers is a DPhil student in Anthropology at the University of Oxford and has conducted research at Oxford’s Refugee Studies Centre.
Salsabeel Hamdan (1)Born in 1993, “Sal” moved to Gaza when she was about 17 from the UAE. She struggled and still is struggling to fit into the extraordinary ...
Bill Frelick (1)Bill Frelick is the director of the Refugee Rights Program at Human Rights Watch.
D.H. Lawrence (1)D. H. Lawrence (11 September 1885 – 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter.
Joel Schalit and Charlie Bertsch (1)Joel Schalit and Charlie Bertsch co-founded Souciant.
Steven Davidson (1)Steven Davidson is a freelance journalist based in the Middle East. His work has appeared in the Forward, the Times of Israel, Haaretz, Salon,...
Izza Leghtas and Jessica Thea (1)Izza Leghtas is a senior advocate at Refugees International in Washington, DC. Jessica Thea (@jess_thea) is a fellow at Refugees International.
Herbert Adams Gibbons (1)Herbert Adams Gibbons was an American journalist who wrote about international politics and European colonialism during the early 20th century.
Claire Higgins (1)Claire Higgins is a senior research associate at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Sydney.
Sarah Deardorff Miller (1)Sarah Deardorff Miller is an adjunct faculty member at the University of London and Columbia University. She consults for various organizati...
Hannah Markay (1)Hannah Markay is a recent graduate of the MSc in refugee and forced migration studies at the University of Oxford. She is working i...
Daniel Howden and Apostolis Fotialdis (1)Daniel Howden is a senior editor at News Deeply. A contributor to the Economist and the Guardian, he was previously the Africa correspondent...
Elie Schalit (1)Elie Schalit (1921-2015) was born and raised in Palestine. A commander in the pre-state Jewish military organization, the Haganah, Schalit h...
Quincy Lee (1)Quincy Lee is an adventurous traveller and freelance writer. Specializing in science communication, he uses narratives to explain the phys...
Fadi O. Al-Naji (1)Fadi, 23, is a graduate in English language and literature from Al-Azhar University, Gaza. "Writing is my only way to escape from a life ful...
Dina Baslan and Izza Leghtas (1)Dina Baslan is a cofounder of the nonprofit organization Sawiyan in Amman, Jordan. Izza Leghtas is a senior advocate at Refugees Internationa...
Sophie Zinser and Jesse Marks (1)Sophie Zinser is a humanitarian, Fulbright Scholar, and journalist living in Amman, Jordan. Her stories resist mainstream media narratives of...
Alaa (1)Alaa, whose last name has been omitted for security reasons, is a Syrian civil society worker in Damascus.
Megan Clement (1)Megan Clement is managing editor of Women & Girls at News Deeply. She has broad experience covering human rights, gender, development, polit...
Mat Nashed (1)Mat Nashed is an investigative journalist covering Middle East-related news. Focusing on black markets and migration, he has reported from Tur...
Dana Sachs (1)Dana Sachs is a co-founder of the U.S.-based aid group Humanity Now.
Debora Del Pistoia (1)Debora Del Pistoia is a freelance journalist and North Africa campaigner for Amnesty International covering Algeria, Morocco and Western Sahara.
Jesse Marks and Lina Kreidie (1)Jesse Marks is a Fulbright fellow and Scoville Peace fellow based in Amman, Jordan researching strategies for managing refugee return, Sy...
Tim Dixon (1)Tim Dixon is the co-founder of More in Common, an initiative to counter threats to open and inclusive societies in Europe and the US...
Gonzalo Fanjul (1)Gonzalo Fanjul is Head of Research at porCausa Foundation, an organization that uses analysis and journalism to foster an informed public de...
Jett Goldsmith (1)Jett Goldsmith is a journalist from Denver, Colorado, with a background in analysis of the Syrian conflict and Ba’athist state structures...
Mohammed Arafat (1)Mohammed, 25, is a graduate of the Islamic University of Gaza, where he studied English. He says he aspires to become “a voice for Palestine...
Elena Cavallone (1)Elena Cavallone is a freelance producer and media consultant at Euronews, based in Brussels.
Katie Kuschminder (1)Dr. Katie Kuschminder is an assistant professor at Maastricht Graduate School of Governance and UNU-MERIT. She recently completed an NWO Rub...
Mark Akkerman (1)Mark Akkerman is author of the 2018 report “Expanding the Fortress: The policies, profiteers and people shaped by E.U.’s bo...
Ismail Kushkush (1)Isma’il Kushkush is a journalist who has contributed to the New York Times, CNN, the Associated Press and Reuters. He was based in Khart...
Michael Dempsey (1)Michael P. Dempsey is the national intelligence fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and the former acting director of nati...
Francesca Mannocchi (1)Francesca Mannocchi is a freelance journalist. She contributes to Italian TV, including RAI-3, La7, Skytg24 and international newspapers suc...
Ghada Ahmed (1)Ghada, 25, studied English at the Islamic University of Gaza. She has worked as a librarian and translator for the Center for Political...
Tamam Abusalama (1)Tamam is a Palestinian blogger and journalism student pursuing her master's degree in communication studies with a focus on new media and soc...
Abdullah (1)Abdullah, 27, is a psychosocial community health worker with one of the International Rescue Committee’s local partner organizations in Id...
Arwa al-Basha (1)Arwa al-Basha is a freelance Syrian journalist.
Anchal Vohra (1)Anchal Vohra is a journalist based in Beirut and writes on the Middle East and Europe. In the past, she covered South Asia for more than a dec...
David Daoud (1)David Daoud is a Research Analyst at the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) focusing on Hezbollah and Lebanon.
Philippe Nicolas (1)Philippe Nicolas is a visual designer and creative director. Based in Nantes, his clients include the New York Times, FIFA, UEFA, Ag...
Alice Medina (1)Alicia Medina is a Spanish reporter. She has contributed to eldiario.es, El Confidencial, Revista 5W and A Punt Media. She directed a documen...
Nikita Taniparti (1)Nikita Taniparti is a recent graduate from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, with a Masters in Public Administra...
Jeff Crisp (1)Dr. Jeff Crisp was formerly head of policy development and evaluation at UNHCR, and is currently affiliated to Chatham House and Ox...
Lizzie Porter (1)Lizzie Porter is a Beirut-based freelance journalist, with a focus on Syria and Lebanon. She has special interests in displaced populati...
Eric Karstens (1)Eric Karstens is a freelance business development consultant and lecturer in media and journalism. He also serves as a funding consultant...
Maria Hagan (1)Maria Hagan is a DPhil candidate at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on migration, humanitarianism and the regulatio...
Joel Schalit and Josh White (1)Joel Schalit and Josh White are editors of Souciant.
Jesse Rosenfeld (1)Jesse Rosenfeld, a Middle East-based journalist since 2007, has reported from Israel-Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, Turkey and across Europe...
Neil Hauer (1)Neil Hauer is an independent analyst focused on Syria, Russia, and the Caucasus. Based in Tbilisi, Georgia, he served as senior intellig...
Samer Bouidani and Luna Safwan (1)Samer is a freelance photographer working in Eastern Ghouta since 2014 with the Nurphoto agency. He also works on reporting detainees issues. ...
John Berger (1)John Peter Berger (5 November 1926 – 2 January 2017) was an English art critic, novelist, painter and poet. His novel G. won the 1972 Bo...
Flor Didden (1)Flor Didden is the migration policy officer at 11.11.11 Coalition of the Flemish North-South movement.
Emma Goldman (1)Emma Goldman (1869 – 1940) was one of the primary architects of anarchist philosophy in the 20th century.
Omer Ozkizilcik (1)Ömer Özkizilcik is an analyst working with the Middle East Foundation think tank in Ankara. He is also an editor for the Suriye Gündemi ...
Ana Uzelac (1)Ana Uzelac is a Senior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute’s Conflict Research Unit.
Hiba Dlewati (1)Hiba Dlewati is a print and multimedia journalist from Damascus, Syria and the assistant managing editor of Syria Deeply. Born in Michigan...
Carson Frame (1)Carson Frame is a freelance journalist based in New York City. She's currently working toward her master's in Literary Reportage at NYU. You...
Charlotte Alfred (1)Charlotte Alfred is managing editor of Refugees Deeply. Previously, she was a reporter for The Huffington Post focused on Africa, wo...
Alexander Aaronsohn (1)Alexander Aaronson (Romania, 1888–Palestine, 1948) was an author and activist who wrote about the plight of people living in Palestine in...
Mariah Brennan Clegg (1)Mariah Brennan Clegg is a journalist based in Santa Barbara.
Ellie Karoubi (1)Ellie Karoubi is a law student at Queen Mary, University of London. She has a deep interest in research and critical analysis on various l...
Henry Roe (1)Henry Roe is a teacher and translator who has been working in Georgia since 2011, and is particularly interested in the history and culture of...
Sadiq Habib (1)Sadiq Habib is a graduate student at SOAS, University of London, studying Comparative Political Thought with a focus on Marxism and Ism...
Heather McRobie and Maxim Edwards (1)Heather McRobie is a writer, an editor of Oxford Human Rights Hub and commissioning editor at openDemocracy 50.50. Her latest book, Lite...
Leo Tolstoy (1)Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1828 – 1910), usually referred to in English as Leo Tolstoy, was a Russian novelist regarded as one of...
Theodore Leighton Pennell (1)Theodore Leighton Pennell was a Christian missionary and doctor who lived among the tribes of Afghanistan. For his work in founding a missio...
D.A. Baxter (1)D. A. Baxter is the pseudonym of an Uzbek journalist, currently living in the US. He has witnessed multiple human rights abuses and social crises.
Hassan Umer (1)Hassan Umer is a vocalist, filmmaker, and rock journalist currently based in Lahore. He sings with Multinational Corporations.
John Spargo (1)John Spargo (1876–1966) was an early biographer of Karl Marx. He was one of the leading public intellectuals affiliated with the Socialist P...
G.K. Chesterton (1)Gilbert Keith Chesterton, (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, ora...
Sergio Rueda (1)Sergio Rueda is a Student Fellow at the Global Center for Advanced Studies. Rueda is the former Education Secretary of ACEU-Santander.
Sir John Adye (1)General Sir John Miller Adye GCB (1 November 1819 – 26 August 1900) was a British general and amateur artist.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1)Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922) was an English poet and writer. Blunt was best known for his poetry, but also wrote a number of political ess...
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