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Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia is an author, residing in London. He was born as the son of an Eritrean mother and an Ethiopian father in Eritrea. Following the Om Hajar massacre in 1976, he spent his early life in a refugee camp in Sudan, then, in his early teens, he lived and studied in Saudi Arabia. Eventually, he sought asylum with…

Nikolay Stajkov is a former journalist and the founder of Chitalishte.to and the protest network movement Protestna mrezha. Protestna mrezha was organised as a movement against the Orsharsky government in the summer of 2013 and has now been protesting on a regular basis for more than a year in demonstrations triggered by the appointment of Delyan Peevski (a media mogul…

Nikolay Stoyanov is part of the KTB Files team and a financial journalist who has worked for Capital for the last ten years. At Capital, he is responsible for covering the banking sector and is the editor of the newspaper’s financial section. Nikolay is also the author of numerous articles on the concentration of money in CCB state-owned companies, loans…

Tihomir Bezlov is a leading expert in criminal research. As a senior analyst at the Centre for the Study of Democracy he has authored numerous reports and sociological research papers over the last 17 years. His research into various crime and corruption-related issues (e.g. the supply and demand of illegal drugs, prostitution markets, human trafficking and the smuggling of commercial…

Nikoleta Daskalova is a media studies researcher and the coordinator of the Media Monitoring Lab at the Media Democracy Foundation in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her research interests lie in the structural processes of the Bulgarian media system, in comparative media studies, media and popular culture and political communication. She is the author of numerous articles in the field of media monitoring and…

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This page featured a live stream of the Krytyka Polityczna debate, What is the point of power? This debate has now finished, but information on and recordings from the Jacek Kuroń Festival can still be found on our event page for the festival Featuring Claus Offe (Hertie School of Governance, Berlin), Sławomir Sierakowski (Krytyka Polityczna) and Jadwiga Staniszkis (Sociologist, ex-University of…

This page featured a live stream of the Free Word and Index on Censorship debate, Illiberal democracy: the future of freedom. Featuring the Hungarian theoretician Agnes Heller, the Franco-Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski, this debate took a closer look at the cracks appearing in Europe’s liberal democracies and asked what it is that constitutes Europe and…

This page featured a live stream of the Krytyka Polityczna debate, There’s no Europe without solidarity. Featuring Maciej Konieczny (Partia Razem – Together Party), Lorenzo Marsili (European Alternatives / DiEM25), Igor Stokfiszewski (Krytyka Polityczna) and Maria Świetlik (Inicjatywa Pracownicza – Workers’ Initiative Trade Union), this debate brought together social movements from across the continent and asked them how they cooperate internationally…

Yvette Huddleston is an author and freelance journalist, specialising in the arts. She has written for a variety of national and regional newspapers and magazines, including the Daily Mail, where she was a film columnist for ten years, The Daily Telegraph and The Yorkshire Post. She has written extensively on film, theatre, literature and the visual arts and is co-author…

Anthony Clavane is an author, journalist and playwright. His new play, Leeds Lads, is playing in Leeds this summer and he is the author of Promised Land, described as “glorious” by The Guardian and, in 2011, named both Football Book of the Year and Sports Book of the Year. His latest book, Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here?, about Jewish involvement…

Chris Bond is The Yorkshire Post‘s assistant features editor. He has worked at the newspaper for the past 15 years and for the last decade he has been a feature writer. He is also the author of Ashley Jackson’s biography, An Artist’s Life, published in 2010, and has interviewed the likes of Alan Bennett, Michael Palin, Sean Bean and John…