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Life as a Hazara Woman in Afghanistan: In Conversation with Soomaya Javadi
Soomaya Javadi is a Hazara human rights activist who fled Afghanistan with the help of the 30 Birds Foundation. Actively advocating...

Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read


Guantanamo Bay and the Court of Public Opinion: In Conversation with Clive Stafford Smith
Clive Stafford Smith is a British human rights lawyer who has spent his career working against the death penalty in the United States,...

Nadia Jahnecke
19 min read


The Old Man of the Syrian Revolution: In Conversation with Riad al-Turk
Riad al-Turk was a political opposition leader, lawyer, and human rights activist from Homs, Syria. By many Syrians he is seen as a...

Nour Kachi
10 min read


International Criminal Law and the Russia-Ukraine War: In Conversation with Andrew Clapham
Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute, which he joined in 1997. He was the first Director of...

Shahad Alkamas
23 min read


How US Judges Failed the Rule of Law and Justice: In Conversation with Thomas B Wilner
Thomas B Wilner is the managing partner of Shearman & Sterling's International Trade and Global Relations Practice. In addition to this,...

Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read


The Mauritanian Speaks: In Conversation with Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Mohamedou Ould Slahi was detained at the inhumane Guantanamo Bay 'Detention Camp' for 14 years without charge. For 14 years, Mohamedou...

Nadia Jahnecke
21 min read


The War on Terror’s Obstruction of Justice: In Conversation with Nancy Hollander
Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm of Freedman Boyd...

Nadia Jahnecke
26 min read


Life of Peaceful Resistance in Palestine: In Conversation with Issa Amro
Issa Amro is a Palestinian human rights defender who has lived in Hebron (West Bank) since his birth. For over two decades, he has been...

Shahad Alkamas
22 min read


Politics in a Multiplex World: In Conversation with Amitav Acharya
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International...

Richa Kapoor
17 min read


Art under Siege: In Conversation with Mykhailo Glubokyi
Three Stories of Art and War II

Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read


Art at the Arsenal: In Conversation with Olesya Ostrovska-Liuta
Three Stories of Art and War I коли гуркочуть гармати- музи замовкають The Russian invasion catapulted the Ukrainian art world into...

Constance Uzwyshyn
16 min read


The Next Civil War: In Conversation with Stephen Marche
Stephen Marche is a novelist, essayist and cultural commentator. He is the author of half a dozen books and has written opinion pieces...

Charlotte Friesen
6 min read


Power and Performativity: In Conversation with Professor Judith Butler
A front-runner in the fight for equality and justice, Professor Judith Butler is one of the most influential philosophers of the past...

Teresa Turkheimer
26 min read


Dublin and Urban Development: In Conversation with Dr. Alison Gilliland
Dr. Alison Gilliland was Dublin’s 353rd Lord Mayor in 2021/2022. She is currently a Dublin City Councillor for the Labour Party,...

Kylie Quinn
14 min read


Educational Rights for Baha’i in Iran: In Conversation with Iqan Shahidi
Iqan Shahidi is a PhD candidate in Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. He completed his undergraduate studies in...

Casper Alexander Sanderson
16 min read


Ukrainian Identity in Paint: In Conversation with Oleg Tistol
Oleg Tistol is one of Ukraine’s leading contemporary artists, who works with stereotypes associated with Ukrainian everyday life and...

Constance Uzwyshyn
19 min read


Building the Jam Factory: In Conversation with Bozhena Pelenska
Three Stories of Art and War III

Constance Uzwyshyn
9 min read


Democracy, Constitutionalism, and the Commonwealth: In Conversation with Professor Vernon Bogdanor
Currently Professor of Government at King’s College London, Professor Vernon Bogdanor is a leading expert in British constitutional...

Teresa Turkheimer
25 min read


War from the Verkhovna Rada: In Conversation with Mariya Ionova (MP)
Mariya Ionova wears many hats. She is a Member of the Parliament of Ukraine, holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Credit and a...

Constance Uzwyshyn
10 min read


Economic Recovery Post-COVID: In Conversation with Jean Tirole
Jean Tirole is a French economist who specialises in regulation, behavioural economics, industrial organisation, finance, banking, and...

Gabrielle Desalbres
19 min read


Five Decades of Egyptian Politics: In Conversation with Dr Mostafa El Feki
Dr Mostafa El Feki is Director of the New Library of Alexandria. He has been a Professor of Political Science at the American University...
Asseel Darwish
7 min read


Mary Wollstonecraft's Political Philosophy: In Conversation with Sylvana Tomaselli
Sylvana Tomaselli is a historian and lecturer in political philosophy at the University of Cambridge, where she is a fellow of St John’s...

Maria Stella Sendas Mendes
10 min read


Theory and Politics under Technofeudalism: In Conversation with Yanis Varoufakis
As a theorist, economist, politician, author, and co-founder of two transnational democratic and progressive movements, Yanis Varoufakis...

Teresa Turkheimer
29 min read


Art Lost and Found: In Conversation with Christopher Marinello
Christopher A Marinello is an expert in recovering stolen, looted, and missing works of art. A lawyer for over 38 years, Marinello began...

Alex Charilaou
10 min read
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