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This page features a video recording of the De Balie debate, Erdoğan – the new father of Turkey?. This debate took place on the 27th February and featured Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal, Nicolas Cheviron, Jean-Francois Pérouse, Ahmet Polat and Betsy Udink in a discussion on the rise and future of Erdoğan and perceptions of him at home and abroad. More…

Lesia Kulchynska is a researcher at the Department of Film and Television Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and an associate professor in the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. She is also a researcher and curator at the Visual Culture Research Centre. She holds a Master‘s degree in Culture Studies, has written articles on cultural and social…

Andrew Wilson is a historian and a political scientist, who works as a professor in the Ukrainian Studies Department of University College London. He is also a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations and the author of many books, including The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation (2000), Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (2005) and Ukraine…

Michal Vašečka is a political and social scientist, who works as an assistant professor Masaryk University’s Department of Sociology in Brno. He is also a Member of the Council of Europe’s European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). Information valid as of early 2016.

Ludwika Włodek is a political scientist and sociologist, who works as a lecturer at the University of Warsaw’s Centre for East European Studies. She is an expert on Central Asia and the post-Soviet region and focuses especially on political culture and questions relating to nationality. Ludwika is also active as a reporter and columnist (amongst others for Gazeta Wyborcza) and…

Patrycja Sasnal is a political scientist and expert on international affairs, specialising in the Middle East and the Arab world. She heads the Middle East and North Africa Project at the Polish Institute of International Affairs and is the author of Polityka Stanów Zjednoczonych wobec aktorów w konflikcie arabsko-izraelskim: między Bushem a Obamą [The Politics of the United States towards…

Peter Pomerantsev is a writer and documentary film maker. Formerly, a film producer at the Russian television network, TNT, he now works as columnist for the London Review of Books and is a senior fellow at the Legatum Institute in London. Peter Pomerantsev is also the author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the…

Borka Pavićević is a dramaturge, anti-war activist and cultural and political dissident. As a columnist, she has written for the cult, avant-garde publication Susret and the independent news magazine Vreme and she is a co-founder of the anti-nationalist organisation, the Belgrade Circle, as well as the founder of Belgrade’s Centre for Cultural Decontamination. Information valid as of early 2016.

Lina Khatib is a research associate at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, a senior research associate with the Arab Reform Initiative, a former director of the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut and a co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. Lina Khatib is also the author of many books, most notably…

Yaroslav Hrytsak is an historian and essayist, who works as a professor at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv. He is the author of many books, including Нариси Історії України: Формування модерної української нації XIX—XX ст. [Essays on the History of Ukraine: The Formation of the Modern Ukrainian Nation in the 19th and 20th Centuries] (1996), Страсті за націоналізмом [A…

Aleksandra Hnatiuk is a diplomat, essayist, editor and translator. She works as a professor at the University of Warsaw’s Centre for East European Studies and is the author of many books, including Bunt Pokolenia. Rozmowy z intelektualistami ukraińskimi [The Offspring’s Revolt. Conversations with Ukrainian Intellectuals] (2000, together with Bogumiła Berdychowska), Pożegnanie z imperium. Ukraińskie dyskusje o tożsamości [The End of…

Konstanty Gebert is a psychologist, Gazeta Wyborcza war correspondent (writing under the alias Dawid Warszawski) and expert on the Balkans and Middle Eastern regions. From 1992-1993, he worked as an advisor to Tadeusz Mazowiecki in his work as a Special Rapporteur at the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission within the former Yugoslavia and he is also well-known as the founder…