Shaima Madboly is an independent journalist, researcher, and lecturer specialising in conflict and peace reporting. She has contributed to Aljazeera English, Sweden’s Public Radio (SR), and the BBC ...

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Dylan Neri is an English-Italian writer based in the UK. He holds an MSc in theoretical physics from the University of Edinburgh.

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb is the executive director of Fikra for Studies and Development (FikraSD), a non-partisan Sudanese think tank. He previously served as an advisor to the UN political mission in ...

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Mahesh Ganguly, research fellow, based at IIT Bombay. He was previously associated as junior research fellow with Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

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