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2019
Raja Shehadeh
Raja Shehadeh is a writer and a lawyer who founded the pioneering Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists. Shehadeh is the author of seve...
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2018
Étienne Balibar
Étienne Balibar was born in 1942. He graduated from the École normale supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris, he earned his doctoral degree at the University of Nijmegen. He has held teaching positio...
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2017
Ronald G. Suny
RONALD G. SUNY is the William H. Sewell Jr. Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan; Emeritus Professor of Political Science and...
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2016
Vandana Shiva
Dr. Vandana Shiva trained as a physicist at the University of Punjab, and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science,...
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2015
Angela Davis
Angela Y. Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and the Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California-Santa Cruz. A well-known political activist, Dav...
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2014
Loic Wacquant
Loïc Wacquant is a sociologist, specializing in urban sociology, urban poverty, racial inequality, the body, social theory and ethnography. He has been a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows, a M...
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2013
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky is a professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a critically engaged public intellectual. He received his PhD in linguistics in 1955 from the Universi...
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2012
Rabab El-Mahdi
Rabab El-Mahdi is a leftist-activist, who has joined and co-founded a number of opposition groups in Egypt, including Kefaya prodemocracy movement, the National Front for Democracy and Social Justice,...
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2011
Michael Cashman
Michael Cashman is a former British actor, human rights activist, and a member of the European Parliament for the Labour Party of Britain. In the European Parliament he is Labour spokesperson on human...
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2010
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein is a Canadian award-winning journalist, author of internationally bestselling non-fiction books and political activist. She writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian that is ...
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2009
Sir Geoffrey Bindman
Geoffrey Bindman is a legal consultant, writer and broadcaster in civil liberties and human rights, media law, defamation and anti-discrimination law. He is the chair of the Board of Trustees at the B...
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2008
Arundhati Roy
Suzanna Arundhati Roy is an Indian author who is best known for her novel The God of Small Things (1997), which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. In 2002, she won the Lannan Foundation's C...
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