James Russell – Investigative Journalist & Civil Rights Watchdog. My research published in Raw Story, The Forward, Daily Mail, Wired and more. I work pro bono to expose and dismantle political extremism.
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Author "Women Building Peace";
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Teaching Fellow in Global Medieval History, Uni of Leeds. PhD in early Abbasid visual language of power & relationship to Rome, general geek, chronically ill. I want to live on a boat again. She/her.
*All Roads Lead to Rome* out now with Aurum Press.
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Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”;
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"A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare."
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In Brighton, from Lebanon.
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Associate Professor Northwestern University in Qatar | Studies Disinfo, Digital Repression & Gulf Politics | Author Digital Authoritarianism in the Middle East (Hurst & OUP) Political Repression in Bahrain (Cambridge University Press) | Cat Fancier
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Middle East correspondent at The Economist.
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