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Cihan Aksan

Cihan Aksan is co-editor of State Of Nature. She left her native Turkey as a child after the 1980 military coup and lived and studied for many years in England. Having worked as a lecturer in English in Cyprus for three years she is now back in the UK for post-graduate study at Warwick University.




Jon Bailes

Jon Bailes is co-editor and webmaster of State Of Nature. After spending three years in Cyprus working as a lecturer in English he is now back in the UK and is currently a PhD candidate in the Centre for European Studies at University College London.





Non-Fiction Writers



Daud Abdullah

Daud Abdullah is senior researcher at the Palestinian Return Centre, London and deputy director of the Muslim Council of Britain.

Contributions to SoN:
Nov/Dec 2006 - A Reading of the Blair Visit to the Middle East




Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam is the author of The International Politics of the Persian Gulf: A Cultural Genealogy (Routledge, 2006) and Essays on Iran: Foreign Relations and Domestic Politics in the Islamic Republic (forthcoming). He teaches International Relations at Oxford University.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - The Neo-conservative asabiyya
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Muslim Presence in British Politics




Rod Allison

Rod Allison is an independent researcher. Born in London in 1946, in 1985 he emigrated to Mexico, to live in Mexico City. He is currently a translator from Spanish to English, specializing in economics and finance since 1993. He has worked for several institutions in Mexico and was head of financial reporting for the “English Wire” at the State-run news agency Notimex from 1992 to 1993.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2009 - On the Economic Aspects of War




Ian Angus

Ian Angus is editor of Climate and Capitalism, associate editor Socialist Voice, and a founding member of the Ecosocialist International Network. He lives near Ottawa, Canada.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2009 - Ecosocialism: For a Society of Good Ancestors!




David Baake

David Baake is 16 years old and lives in Lubbock, TX. Visit his websites at www.humanitarian.tk and www.fuckauthority.org. Send feedback to dbaake@sbcglobal.net.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - A New Era of Imperialism: Defending the Unipolar Order




Diana Barahona

Diana Barahona is an independent journalist living in Southern California. She can be reached at dlbarahona@cs.com

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The Move towards Independence in Latin America




Frank Barat

Frank Barat is a peace activist living in London. He is a member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK (http://www.palestinecampaign.org/). You can reach him through his blog ‘life under occupation’.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2009 - The War to End all Wars
Winter 2009 - A Charter Issue?
Spring 2009 - The Death of Bassem Abu Rahme




Omar Barghouti

Omar Barghouti is an independent Palestinian researcher and a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) www.PACBI.org.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Boycotting Israeli Apartheid: Evoking South Africa’s Legacy




Michael Barker

Michael Barker is a doctoral candidate at Griffith University, Australia. He can be reached at: Michael.J.Barker@griffith.edu.au

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2007 - A Force More Powerful: Promoting ‘Democracy’ through Civil Disobedience
Spring 2008 - Capital-driven Civil Society
Autumn 2009 - Saving Trees and Captitalism Too




Ramzy Baroud

Ramzy Baroud, who teaches mass communication at Curtin University of Technology, is the author of the forthcoming book The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle (Pluto Press, London). He is also the editor-in-chief of PalestineChronicle.com

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - At Last, a Real Middle East Democracy Project




Nora Barrows-Friedman

Nora Barrows-Friedman, born in 1978, is a mother, a writer, and the Senior Producer and co-host of Flashpoints, a daily investigative newsmagazine on Pacifica Radio. She volunteers twice a year at the Ibdaa Cultural Center inside the Dheisheh refugee camp near Bethlehem in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, working with refugee youth to establish a state-of-the-art media center inside the camp. Nora can be reached at norabf@gmail.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Consumption of War




Sharon Beder

Sharon Beder is a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. Dr Beder has written 9 books, around 150 articles, book chapters and conference papers, as well as educational monographs, consultancy reports and teaching resources. Her research has focussed on how power relationships are maintained and challenged, particularly by corporations and professions.

Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Role of ‘Economic Education’ in Achieving Capitalist Hegemony




Steve Best

Steve Best is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas, El Paso Texas. He is co-editor (with Anthony J. Nocella II and Peter McLaren) of Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic-Industrial Complex (AK Press 2009) and author of Moral Progress and Animal Liberation: The Struggle for Human Evolution (Rowman and Littlefield forthcoming 2010). His website is: www.drstevebest.com, and he can be reached at: best@utep.edu.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2009 - The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education




Shepherd Bliss

Dr. Shepherd Bliss, sb3@pon.net, is a retired college teacher who has owned a farm in Northern California for the last 15 years. He has contributed essays and poems to 18 books.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Former McDonald’s Cook Confesses: Returns to Family Farming
Sept/Oct 2006 - Inside a veterans' Group: Writing about War and Peace
Nov/Dec 2006 - New York Times Reacts to Bioneers
Autumn 2009 - In Praise of Fallen Leaves - Let Them Be!




Roland Boer

Roland Boer is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University, Australia.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2008 - On Free Speech: Some Reflections on Religion, Politics and Twelve Cartoons
Winter 2009 - Narratives of Environmental Catastrophe




Patrick Bond

Patrick Bond, director of the UKZN Centre for Civil Society (http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccs/default.asp?10,24,8,55), is a political economist who has pursued longstanding research interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. Since 2000, Patrick has authored/edited these books: Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (with Rehana Dada); Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa; Fanon's Warning: A Civil Society Reader on the New Partnership for Africa's Development; Talk Left, Walk Right: South Africa's Frustrated Global Reforms; Against Global Apartheid: South Africa meets the World Bank, IMF and International Finance; Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Searth for Social Justice (with Masimba Manyanya); Unsustainable South Africa: Environment, Development and Social Protest and Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal: South Africa's New Urban Crisis.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The Decommodification Strategy in South Africa




William Bowles

William Bowles has been working in the fields of the arts, media, communications and of course, politics, for over thirty-five years and during that time he has covered a lot of ground and on three continents. Standing still is not an option. He now devotes most of his time to his online journal 'Investigating new Imperialism' for which he writes as well as publishing work by other writers. Recently published work includes a section for 'Devastating Society', a collection of writings on the 'neo-con' assault on democracy (Pluto Press, UK), 'The Macintosh Computer - Archetypal Capitalist Tool?', for Data Browser 2 (Autonomedia, NY) and other essays and reviews.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Capitalism Rejected?




Joshua Brollier

Joshua Brollier is a member of the Francis of Assisi Catholic Worker Community, an activist with Northside Action for Justice, and a co-coordinator with Voices for Creative Non-Violence.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2009 - Criminal on Wheels?
Summer 2009 - Shoot to Kill? How about the Oil Execs too...




James Brooks

James Brooks serves as webmaster for Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, www.vtjp.org, where readers can read his research into Israel’s development and use of chemical weapons. Mr. Brooks’ articles on the Middle East have been published by ZNet, CounterPunch, Common Dreams, Palestine Chronicle, Electronic Intifada, and other periodicals. He can be contacted at jamiedb@attglobal.net.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - The Entwined Fates of Palestine and America




Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit is a professor with the Chicago City Colleges, co-founder of Global Initiative Chicago (GIChicago.org), and the founder of fightingpoverty.org.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Our Secret War
Summer 2008 - Where Have You Gone, Gordon Gekko? Oh Right, You're Still Here
Winter 2009 - A Culture of Inequality




Chris Carlson

Chris Carlson is a North American student and activist living in Venezuela. See his personal blog at: www.gringoinvenezuela.com

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - Venezuela in the Center of the World




Paula Cerni

Paula Cerni MPhil is an independent writer. For other publications, please visit http://360.yahoo.com/p.cerni.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - Atheism Is Not Enough: A Socialist Dare to Religion and Science




Dennis Chapman

Dr. Dennis Lee Chapman has recently completed and passed his Ph.D. thesis (Hull University) which compares regions of the E.U. based on 'domestic sources of international outcomes'. With scholarly interests in international private security, policing, education and the politics of science, Dr. Chapman is currently using a research grant toward field work in England. This field work seeks to further demonstrate the political similarities of volunteer organisations qualified by high stakes up to and including death, e.g. skydiving, martial arts, mushroom hunting (Fine et al. 1996), etc., and public citizenship. Dr. Chapman can be contacted at: dionysus@myicrosoft.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - God is not Dead: Intelligent Design Theory and Evolution
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Fall of Tony Blair: The Double-Edged Sword of Performancism
Spring 2008 - Feeling Is Better than Being: Capital(ism) Security in the Twenty-First Century
Spring 2009 - Defining Terrorism: A Thought Experiment




Paul Chatterton

Dr Paul Chatterton lectures at the School of Geography, University of Leeds. His research interests include urban culture (focusing on youth cultures of resistance, and regeneration policies), protest and social movements, and sustainable and international development (with a focus on the Argentinian popular rebellion and the Zapatista uprising in Mexico).

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - The Zapatista Caracoles and Good Governments: The Long Walk to Autonomy




William Cook

William Cook received a Ph.D. from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania in 1971, spent most of his academic career in academic administration as Chair, Dean, and Vice President at 7 universities in 5 states and is currently Professor of English at the University of La Verne. He has published three books since 2000, A Time to Know, Psalms for the 21st Century, and Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy. Also, with his wife, Darcy, he co-authored The Unreasoning Mask, a contemporary tragedy about the Bush administration and wrote a one act monologue The Agony of Colin Powell. More can be found at the web site, www.drwilliamacook.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - For Whom the Bell Tolls In Our Time: The Hamas Challenge to Israel




Kenneth Couesbouc

Kenneth Couesbouc can be reached at kencouesbouc@yahoo.fr.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - Going beyond Confrontation
Winter 2009 - Divide and Rule
Spring 2009 - A Pragmatic Tool
Summer 2009 - Compulsive Investments
Autumn 2009 - The Gardener's Spirit
Winter 2010 - The Struggle of Nations




Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is author of many books, most recently Things Merely Are (Routledge, 2005).

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Crypto-Schmittianism




David Cromwell

David Cromwell is co-editor of Media Lens (www.medialens.org). The first Media Lens book was published in January 2006: Guardians of Power: The Myth Of The Liberal Media by David Edwards and David Cromwell (Pluto Books, London). For further details, including reviews, interviews and extracts, please see: http://www.medialens.org/bookshop/guardians_of_power.php.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Lining up the Next Victims: The 'Independent' Stokes up Fear of Left in South America




Tom Crumpacker

Tom Crumpacker is a retired lawyer and political activist who works with the Miami Antiwar Coalition and the Miami Coalition to End the US Embargo of Cuba.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The Politics of Depoliticization and the End of History
Summer 2006 - Thinking Outside the Box - Empire: the Dysfunctional Political System




Steve Davis

Steve Davis is the author of Rise Like Lions - The Hijacking of Australian History (Canberra: Ginninderra Press, 2000)

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2007 - Dark Lords: An Examination of the Psychology behind Free Market Theory
Autumn 2007 - Richard Dawkins - Scientist or Propagandist?
Winter 2008 - It’s Time We Had a Definition of Life




Doug Dowd

Doug Dowd was born in San Francisco (1919). He began to teach at Berkeley in 1950; and then at Cornell until 1971. He returned to San Francisco for university teaching until 1992, while, at the same time, teaching "free community classes" (which continue). For about 15 years, he has taught every other semester in Italy (presently at the University of Modena). Among his books, most recent are Blues for America: A Critique, a Lament and some Stories, Capitalism and its Economics: A Critical History and The Broken Promises of America at Home and Abroad, Past and Present: an Encyclopaedia for our Times.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - US Military Expenditures: Beneficial or Harmful? Or, Who Benefits and Who Pays?
Summer 2006 - U.S. Militarism: Talking Peace, Making War
Spring 2007 - Latin America: Spitting in Uncle Sam’s Eye
Summer 2008 - What’s That Coming around the Corner?




Ulrich Duchrow

Ulrich Duchrow is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Heidelberg. His books include Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital and Alternatives to Global Capitalism: Drawn from Biblical History, Designed for Political Action.

Autumn 2007 - Becoming a Human Being in Solidarity: Confronting Neoliberal Destruction




Steve Early

Steve Early has been active in labor since 1972 as a lawyer, journalist, organizer, and union representative. He worked for the Communications Workers of America for 27 years and was involved in CWA organizing at AT&T, Verizon, Lucent, and many other companies. He is the author of a forthcoming book for Monthly Review Press (Spring, 2009) called Embedded With American Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War At Home. He can be reached at Lsupport@aol.com .

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - U.S. Labor Law Reform Thirty Years Later: Back to the Future with EFCA?
Winter 2010 - Michael Yates: On Labor, The Economy, Growing Up Working Class, and Surviving The Motels of America (Review)




David Edwards

David Edwards is co-editor of Media Lens, www.medialens.org. He is the author of Free To be Human (Green Books, 1995, published as Burning All Illusions, South End Press, USA, 1996), The Compassionate Revolution - Radical Politics and Buddhism (Green Books, 1998), and is co-author with David Cromwell of the forthcoming Guardians Of Power - The Myth Of The Liberal Media (Pluto Press, 2006). He can be contacted at: davidedwards1@onetel.com

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Ancient Enemies - Modern Media




Nick Egnatz

Nick is a Vietnam veteran and member of Veterans For Peace. He has been actively protesting our government’s crimes of empire in both person and print for some years now and was named “Citizen of the Year” for Northwest Indiana in 2006 for his anti war/peace efforts by the National Association of Social Workers.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2009 - Imperial Debate
Summer 2009 - Is Obama a Socialist?
Summer 2009 - Capitalism's Done Deal




Shraga Elam

Shraga Elam is an Israeli investigative journalist based in Zurich, Switzerland. He specializes in historical research about the role of Jewish organizations and Switzerland during the Nazi era. In 2004 he won the most prestigious Australian Prize for journalism, the Gold Walkley Award, for his exposure of accounts of Australian VIPs by the Israeli Bank Leumi in Switzerland.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Holocaust Religion and Holocaust Industry in the Service of Israel




Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro

Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin - Stevens Point. He received an MSc in Physical Geography (Soil Geomorphology) and an MA in Anthropology (Archaeology) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Geography and a Certificate in Russian, Central, and East European Studies at Rutgers University. His PhD work linked soil management to gender relations at multiple scales, focusing on SW Hungary as a case study. His current studies seek to explain the gender and class aspects of farming and soil degradation, the connections between world economy, soil science, and soil management, and the relationship of European Union enlargement to world-system processes.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Capitalist Expansionism, Imperialism, and the European Union




Simon Enoch

Simon Enoch, Communication and Culture, Ryerson University, Toronto. senoch@ryerson.ca.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Why Are You So Surprised? Democrats and Imperialist Amnesia
Autumn 2007 - Changing the Ideological Fabric? A Brief History of (Canadian) Neoliberalism




Marco Antonio Esteban

Marco Antonio Esteban is a professor and activist living in Barcelona. He can be reached at: marcoantonio.esteban@gmail.com .

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - The French Suburbs and the Revolutionary Subject




Andreas Exner, Christian Lauk & Konstantin Kulterer

The authors’ book, Limits to Capitalism: How We Fail on Growth, was published in German this year (Ueberreuter, Vienna).

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2008 - Emancipation under Conditions that the Left Didn’t Want: Generalized Resource Shortages as a Historical Crisis of the Social Formation of Capitalism




Carlo Fanelli

Carlo Fanelli is currently a PhD candidate at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in the Department of Sociology/Political Economy..

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2009 - Climate Change, Food Crises & Socialist Reimaginings




Robert Fantina

Robert Fantina is author of Desertion and the American Soldier: 1776 - 2006.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - Bush, McCain and the U.S. Economy
Summer 2008 - That Was Then and This Is Now
Autumn 2008 - 2009 - 2013: Through a Glass Darkly
Winter 2009 - Black, White, Male, Female: Political Implications in the U.S.
Spring 2009 - Israel, Palestine and Terror
Summer 2009 - Republicans, Democrats and ‘Family Values’

Winter 2010 - The Toll of Partisanship




Mark Featherstone

Mark Featherstone is Programme Director in the Department of Sociology and Criminology, Keele University, UK.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2009 - On Critical Paranoia: Political Surrealism and Kinetic Utopia




Carl Finamore

Carl Finamore lives in San Francisco. He can be reached at local1781@yahoo.com

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2009 - Kill and Be Killed: Police Murders in Oakland
Summer 2009 - Would You Rather Be Eaten by a Wolf or a Fox?
Autumn 2009 - San Francisco Readies for a Major Labor Dispute
Winter 2010 - Strikes, Boycotts & Arrests Mark SF Hotel Dispute




Reza Fiyouzat

Reza Fiyouzat can be reached at: rfiyouzat@yahoo.com

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2008 - Boeing or EADS? Don't Give a Damn!
Summer 2008 - Socialize Oil!




Roger Foster

Roger Foster is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Borough of Manhattan Community College of the City University of New York. Foster has published articles on Frankfurt School critical theory in several journals. His book, Adorno: The Recovery of Experience, is forthcoming from State University of New York Press.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - An Empire in Decline? Philosophical Reflections on Morris Berman’s Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire




Henry A Giroux

Henry A Giroux holds the Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University and currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His books include America on the Edge (Palgrave 2006) and The Abandoned Generation: Democracy Beyond the Culture of Fear (Palgrave 2003).

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Youth and the Politics of Disposability: Resisting the Assault on Education and American Youth




Richard Greeman

Richard Greeman is a long time socialist and international activist best know for his studies and translations of Victor Serge, the Franco-Russian novelist and revolutionary. His recent book Beware of Vegetarian Sharks: Radical Rants and Internationalists Essays (Illustrated) is available online at www.lulu.com/content/923573 (free downloads). He can be contacted at: rgreeman@gmail.com

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2009 - Ecotopia: A Bet You Can't Refuse

Winter 2010 - Contextualizing the Threat of Radical Islam




Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh is a graduate student at York University, Toronto, and co-author of Stolen Youth: The Politics of Israel's Detention of Palestinian Children (Pluto Press, 2004). His research interests include the political economy of neo-liberalism, and Middle East politics. He is active with Al Awda (Toronto), Sumoud Political Prisoners Group and the Coalition against Israeli Apartheid.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - 'Democracy Promotion' and Neo-Liberalism in the Middle East




Ismael Hossein-Zadeh

Ismael Hossein-zadeh, author of The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007), teaches economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Manufacturing External Threats to Ensure War Profits
Nov/Dec 2006 - Islamic Fascism?
Winter 2007 - Why the US Is Not Leaving Iraq
Spring 2007 - Escalating Military Spending: Income Redistribution in Disguise
Summer 2007 - Parasitic Imperialism
Autumn 2007 - Distorting Fascism to Demonize Iran
Spring 2008 - Worried about Price of Gas? End U.S. Wars
Summer 2008 - Is There an Oil Shortage?
Autumn 2008 - The Wall Street Coup and the Bailout Scam
Winter 2009 - Whose Interests Will Shape Barack Obama’s “Change”? Radical Change Needs Pressure from Below
Spring 2009 - Obama's Doublespeak on Iran
Summer 2009 - Reflecting on Iran’s Presidential Election
Winter 2010 - Beyond Mainstream Explanations of this Recession: A Marxian Analysis




Ron Jacobs

Ron Jacobs is an anti-imperialist and the author of The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Verso 1997). His first novel, Short Order Frame Up, is due out in early 2007 from Mainstay Press. He currently lives in North Carolina, USA.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - When General Westmoreland Visited My High School to Pray
Winter 2006 - "If Ye Cannot Bring Good News, Then Don't Bring Any." A review of Mike Marqusee's The Wicked Messenger
Spring 2006 - The Long Struggle of Washington against Tehran
Spring 2006 - A Golf Course and A Swimming Pool: Infidels and Imperialists on Pakistani Land
Summer 2006 - Bananas to Barrels of Oil: Washington and Wall Street Look Southward
Sept/Oct 2006 - We Can See through your Masks (Review)
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Weather Underground: An Interview with Dan Berger
Winter 2007 - What's so Civil About Disobedience?
Spring 2007 - 1968 to 2007 - Antiwar Student Movements in the US: Then and Now
Summer 2007 - The Spectre Still Haunts: A Marxist’s Look at Socialism in the 21st Century
Winter 2008 - Onward Through the Fog - Washington in Iraq Five Years On
Winter 2009 - It's Not Only Cream that Rises to the Top




Binoy Kampmark

Binoy Kampmark was Commonwealth Scholar at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge and history lecturer at the University of Queesland. Email: bkampmark@gmail.com .

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - Where to with the Bush Doctrine?




Jyotsna Kapur

Jyotsna Kapur teaches in the department of Cinema and Photography, Southern Illinois University. She is the author of Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing and the Transformation of Childhood (Rutgers University Press, 2005).

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - India Inc: The Nation on Sale in the New Empire




Richard Keeble

Richard Keeble is professor of journalism at the University of Lincoln. He previously taught in the journalism department at City University, London, for 19 years. His publications include The Newspapers Handbook (London, Routledge 2005 fourth edition) and Ethics for Journalists (London, Routledge 2001) He recently edited Print Journalism: A Critical Introduction for Routledge and Communication Ethics Today for Troubador. He is also the editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. Email: rkeeble@lincoln.ac.uk

Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - What is Journalism? Reflections and Provocations




Ed Kinane

Ed Kinane is an activist based in Syracuse. Reach him at edkinane@verizon.net.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - It's a Dog's Life




Peter Lach-Newinsky

Peter Lach-Newinsky was born 1949, grew up bi-lingually (German/English) in Sydney, Australia and studied politics, philosophy and literature in Munich and Frankfurt in the late sixties/early seventies. He was involved in politicisation and activism in the German student and anti-authoritarian movement, worked for many years as a high school and adult migrant English teacher in Germany and Australia and has been in eco-activism since the mid seventies. He now maintains a productive 20 acre small farm in the highlands south-west of Sydney on permaculture lines with his wife and also works as a counsellor in private practice.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2007 - The Continuing Charm of Marx
Autumn 2009 - Doomed to Consciousness: 13 Mildly Millennial Theses on Climate Chaos
Autumn 2009 - Thirty Three Historical Theses on Ecocide and Its Utopian Abolition




Ronit Lentin

Ronit Lentin is director of the postgraduate programme in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin. She has published extensively on gender and genocide, racism in Ireland, and Israel/Palestine. Her books include Conversations with Palestinian Women (1982), Gender and Catastrophe (1997), Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence (2000), Racism and Anti-racism in Ireland (with Robbie McVeigh, 2002), Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (with Nahla Abdo 2002), Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century (2004), After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (with Robbie McVeigh, 2006), Race and State (with Alana Lentin, 2006 / 2008), Performing Global Networks (with Karen Fricker, 2007), and Thinking Palestine (2008). Her next book is Co-Memory and Melncholia: Israelis Memorialising the Palestinian Nakba (2010).

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - Racial State, State of Exception




Dennis Loo

Dennis Loo is co-editor/author of Impeach the President: The Case against Bush and Cheney, Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona, and a National Steering Committee member of the World Can't Wait. He specializes in the analysis of media, public policy-making, and crime. He can be reached via his blog at http://dennisloo.blogspot.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - What Matters Now? The Bush/Cheney Legacy
Winter 2009 - The Water Line: Morality, the Rule of Law, and Leadership
Spring 2009 - Torture's Purpose




Raymond Lotta

Raymond Lotta is a Maoist political economist. He has written extensively about trends in the global economy, conditions in the Third World, and the experience of socialist revolution in the 20th century. He is a contributing writer to Revolution newspaper. His books include America in Decline and Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Hunger Crisis in Niger: Starvation by the Market




David Macaray

David Macaray, a Los Angeles playwright and writer, was a former labor union rep. He can be reached at dmacaray@earthlink.net .

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - All Unions Must Die: Management’s Final Solution
Summer 2008 - Class Warfare Is Alive and Well




William MacDougall

William MacDougall lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a sometime contributor to a number of lifestlyle and political publications and websites including Counterpunch (US), The List (UK), Seven Oaks (Canada), Underground Focus (UK) and Z Magazine (US).

Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Socialist, The Columnist, His Wife and the Prostitute




Norman Madarasz

A Canadian, Norman Madarasz is associate professor of philosophy at Universidade Gama Filho. He welcomes comments at nmphdiol2@yahoo.ca.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Rejection of the Oligarchs: Scouring the Atlantic Rim for Signs of Capitalism
Spring 2007 - Where to with Lula in his Second Term? From Political Corruption to Legalization of Narcotics
Summer 2007 - The Historic Break between Marxism and Communism




J A Miller

J.A. Miller is a grandmother activist from the Middle West who spent many years traveling and studying in the Middle East. She has published essays on Counterpunch and DissidentVoice as well as poems in the manner of the Burma Shave highway signs of her youth at www.PoeticInjustice.net, some of which will be included in their upcoming anthology, Poets for Palestine. Miller is currently writing a book on the Protestant origin of the Zionist project. She can be reached at jsec_miller@hotmail.com

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Madness and Monotheism: Palestine as Psych Ward for the West
Sept/Oct 2006 - Ahmet’s Cafeteria: Empire and the Kindness of Strangers
Nov/Dec 2006 - Cyrus and the Denizens of Hell: On the Occasion of the 89th Anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
Winter 2007 - Mothers Courage and Their Children
Winter 2008 - Palestine Park and the Weight of History
Summer 2008 - A Personal Retrospective of 1968 from atop an Obelisk




Tanner Mirrlees

Tanner Mirrlees is currently a doctoral candidate at York and Ryerson University's Joint Program of Communication and Culture, Toronto, Canada. There, he is working on the history of U.S. cultural foreign policy, the military-industrial-entertainment complex, and empire, communications, and media. He is also the editor of the 'cultural front' section of Relay: A Socialist Project Review.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Imperialist Communication and Culture Wars




Girish Mishra

Dr.Girish Mishra has written extensively for all leading Indian dailies and periodicals including The Times Of India, Hindu, Indian Express and Dainik Jagran. He has, in the past, also written for The People's Press. He has written a formidable list of books on topics related to Economy and Economic History. He lives in New Delhi, India. More of his articles can be viewed at www.girishmishra.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - FDI in Retail Trade is Ruinous
Summer 2007 - On Harry Potter's Popularity




Greg Moses

Greg Moses is editor of online projects, the Texas Civil Rights Review and Peacefile, and he is author of Revolution of Consicence: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence. He can be reached at gmosesx@prodigy.net

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Listening Across the Border: An Interview with Activists Recently Returned from a Tour of Mexico's Maquiladoras




Daniel Moshenberg

Daniel Moshenberg has participated in anti-eviction and social housing campaigns and anti-privatisation and worker support committee projects.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - Housing, Questions, and the Rule of Law




Alex Nunn

Alex Nunn works at the Policy Research Institute at Leeds Metropolitan University, where he undertakes applied commissioned research on behalf of government departments, public bodies and trade unions. More details of his work and publications can be found at: http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lbs/pri/staff/AlexNunn.htm.

Contributions to SoN:
Nov/Dec 2006 - What next for the New Labour Project after Blair?




Michael Parenti

Michael Parenti's recent books include Superpatriotism (City Lights) and The Assassination of Julius Caesar (New Press), both available in paperback. For more information, visit his website: www.michaelparenti.org.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Why the Corporate Rich Oppose Environmentalism




John Petrovato

John Petrovato is a Bookseller in Boston, MA. and a dedicated human rights activist. He co-organizes the annual Renewing the Anarchist Tradition Conference and is a board member of the Institute for Anarchist Studies.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Producing National Identity: Museums, Memory and Collective Thought in Israel




Laray Polk

Laray Polk lives in Dallas, Texas. She is a multi-media artist and writer. Her articles have appeared on CounterPunch, Common Dreams, Znet, Znet Deutschland, Pacific Free Press, Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel, and the Sri Lanka Guardian.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - Bush’s Library: The Kurds, Oil and Missing Records




Gideon Polya

Dr Gideon Polya is a Melbourne-based scientist, lecturer and writer. He published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds (New York & London: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2003). He has just published Body Count: Global Avoidable Mortality since 1950 (Melbourne: G.M. Polya, 2007: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1375/247/ and http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/) and writes widely on occupation, global avoidable mortality and the acute nuclear, greenhouse and poverty threats facing humanity. Words evidently failing, he also paints huge paintings for Peace and Respect for Mother and Child (see http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/).

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - 1984 and the Human Cost of Empire
Nov/Dec 2006 - Blair, Science & History Repeated
Winter 2007 - Civil Disobedience & International Disobedience
Spring 2007 - South America, US Hegemony and Excess Mortality
Summer 2007 - “To each according to his needs” for Spaceship Earth
Winter 2008 - US State Terrorism and the Iraqi Genocide
Summer 2008 - America, Zionism, Israel and the 1968-2008 Orwellian Transformation




Elaheh Rostami Povey

Elaheh Rostami is the author of Women, Work and Islamism, Ideology and Resistance in Iran, under the penname of Maryam Poya.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Women and Work in Iran (Part 1)
Autumn 2005 - Women and Work in Iran (Part 2)
Spring 2006 - The Reality of Life in Afghanistan since the Fall of the Taliban




Niranjan Ramakrishnan

Niranjan Ramakrishnan lives on the West Coast. He has written about politics and current affairs for several years, for online and print publications. His work has appeared on Counterpunch, Countercurrents, Antiwar.com, Z-Net, Commondreams, The Oregonian, The Hindu, The Economic Times, The Indian Express, and India Today. He edits the bi-monthly Gram Sabha.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - The UNDO or the Snapshot? Cleaning up after Bush




Tanya Reinhart

Tanya Reinhart is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and Media Studies at Tel Aviv University and as of January 2007, a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU. She has been a frequent op-ed writer for the Israeli evening paper Yediot Aharonot. She is the author of Israel/Palestine - How to End the War of 1948, Seven Stories, NY, 2002, 2005, and her new book: The Road Map to Nowhere appears in September 2006 (Verso).

Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - Always the Victim: Israel’s Present Wars




Ron Ridenour

Ron Ridenour is a US-born former journalist and a member of the Danish Committee for a Free Iraq. Among his books are: Backfire: The CIA’s Biggest Burn, Cuba at the Crossroads and Yankee Sandinistas, about Nicaragua in revolution. From 1987 to 1996 he lived in Cuba and worked for Cuban media.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Permanent War Age and Iraq




John Ripton

John Ripton is History Chairperson at Gill St. Bernard's School in Gladstone, NJ and adjunct professor at Rutgers University. He participated in meetings with Israelis and Palestinians in Israel in June 2007. He writes for journals, magazines and newspapers on international affairs.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Why a New American Policy for Israel?




Satya Sagar

Satya Sagar is a journalist, writer and video maker from India living in New Delhi. He can be reached at sagarnama@yahoo.com

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2007 - Ecology of Civil Disobedience
Winter 2007 - The Company That Keeps You (Review)




Danny Schechter

News Dissector Danny Schechter edits Mediachannel.org and helps run Globalvision. For info on his latest film, see indebtwetrust.com. To comment, write: Dissector@mediachannel.org

Contributions to SoN:
Sept/oct 2006 - The More You Watch the Less You Know - Ten Years On




Ingo Schmidt

Ingo Schmidt is a political economist who has held positions at various universities in Germany and Canada; currently he is a Labour Relations professor at Athabasca University. His research interests are labour movements, welfare state development and international political economy. Politically he is affiliated with British Columbia Labour Against War, co-editor of a local labour magazine in Germany, Göttinger Betriebsexpress and a columnist with the monthly newspaper Sozialistische Zeitung.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Atlantic Capitalism: One World or More?




Steven Sherman

Steven Sherman is an independent intellectual living in Chapel Hill North Carolina. He can be reached at threehegemons@hotmail.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - The Centrality of State Violence: A Review Essay




Fran Shor

Fran Shor teaches historical and cultural studies at Wayne State University in Detroit. His most recent book is Bush-League Spectacles: Empire, Politics, and Culture in Bushwhacked America.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - “The Free Man’s Burden”: Racial and Masculinist Dimensions of US Empire-Building




Aseem Shrivastava

Aseem Shrivastava is an independent writer from India. He got his doctorate in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has taught Economics at US universities in the past. Most recently he taught Philosophy at Nordic College in Norway. He can be reached at aseem62@yahoo.com

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Tyranny, Empire, and the End of the World as We Know It? (Part 1)
Summer 2006 - Tyranny, Empire, and the End of the World as We Know It? (Part 2)




Morton Skorodin

Morton Skorodin is a retired physician living in Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA. In recent years he has been involved with others in his town opposing the so-called Patriot Act and the war against Iraq.

Contributions to SoN:
Nov/Dec 2006 - The Fire Next Time




John Stanton

John Stanton is a Virginia based writer specializing in political and national security matters. He is the author of America 2004: A Power But Not Super and co-author of America's Nightmare: The Presidency of George Bush II. Reach him at cioran123@yahoo.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Countermeasures for US Citizens: Monitoring the US Government-Corporate Leviathan
Spring 2006 - Refute the Policies of Bush and Clinton - Declare War on the Nationalist-Globalist Class




Jerry Starr

Dr. Jerry Starr is Visiting Professor of Communication, University of California at San Diego (winter term), Professor Emeritus of Sociology, West Virginia University and Director, Center for Social Studies Education in Pittsburgh. He has written a play, Buried: The Sago Mine Disaster. Drafts are available to consider for readings or production. E-mail at jmstarr@adelphia.net.

Contributions to SoN:
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Sago Mine Disaster: Deregulation and its Consequences




Xander Stone

Xander Stone is an aspiring freelance writer, as well as a professional musician, living in San Diego, CA. He has an M.A. in psychology and a life long interest in the humanities and the arts.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2009 - Culture of Lost Souls in Search of a Profit
Autumn 2009 - Technology, Human Beings and the Fate of the Earth:
A Social Critique Of Modern Life




Karyn Strickler

Karyn Strickler, political scientist, activist and writer can be reached a strickler4delegate@gmail.com. She is the founder and chair of HOTTPAC.org, working to elect candidates to reverse global warming.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - George W. Bush: A "Ficeist" Leader
Autumn 2009 - Carbon Cuts: 350 Is Not Adequate




Yifat Susskind

Yifat Susskind, Associate Director of MADRE, was born and raised in Israel, and was active in the Israeli women's peace movement for several years. She has been featured as a commentator on CNN, National Public Radio, and BBC Radio. Ms. Susskind has written for the Middle East Research & Information Project (MERIP) and has been profiled in Ms. Magazine and the New York Daily News.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Adjusting to Empire
Summer 2007 - Palestine in the Age of Hamas: The Challenge of Progressive Solidarity
Winter 2008 - Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq (Part 1)
Winter 2008 - Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the US War on Iraq (Part 2)




Mats Svensson

Mats Svensson, a former Swedish diplomat working on the staff of SIDA, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, is presently following the ongoing occupation of Palestine. He can be reached at isbjorn2001@hotmail.com .

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2008 - The Dance of the Cranes in Jerusalem
Spring 2009 - Who Is a Terrorist?
Winter 2010 - The Pilot Plays Computer Games over Gaza




Mahir Tan

Mahir Tan is a Turkish journalist based in London. He has travelled widely in the Middle East. He reported from the war in Iraq in 2003 and continues to write on issues relating to the region.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - The Beirut File: An Interview with Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah
Winter 2006 - Photo Gallery: Protest in London
Spring 2006 - A Short Conversation with Sheik Hassan Zargani, Representative of the Sadr Movement




Michael J. Thompson

Michael J. Thompson is the founder and editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture (www.logosjournal.com) and is Assistant Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University. His next book is Confronting Neoconservatism: The Rise of the New Right in America, forthcoming from NYU Press.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Capitalism Resurgent




Deepak Tripathi

Deepak Tripathi, a former BBC journalist, reported from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Sri Lanka and India during his 23 years with the corporation. He is the author of two forthcoming books: Overcoming the Bush Legacy in Iraq and Afghanistan and Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism (Potomac Books, Dulles, Virginia, 2010). He lives near London. His works can be found at: http://deepaktripathi.wordpress.com and he can be reached at: dandatripathi@gmail.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2010 - Savage Decade




Farzana Versey

Farzana Versey is the Mumbai-based author of A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan. She can be reached at kaaghaz.kalam@gmail.com .

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - India and the Dalai Lama's Middling Path
Summer 2008 - Who Says You Can't Write about Muhammad? How Liberal Fiction Dictators Play With History
Spring 2009 - Tracking Naheeda, the Pathan Village Woman




Eric Walberg

Eric Walberg writes for Al-Ahram Weekly. You can reach him at www.geocities.com/walberg2002/ .

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2008 - The Greatest African
Summer 2008 - Hardcore Piety
Autumn 2008 - The Foxes in the Chicken Coop
Winter 2010 - Reagan’s Ghost: Starwars Stops START




Peter Watt

Peter Watt is a Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. His teaching and research interests include contemporary Mexico, US/Latin American relations, new social movements in Latin America and representations of Latin America in the British media.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2010 - NAFTA 15 Years on: The Strange Fruits of Neoliberalism




Steve Weissman

A veteran of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the New Left monthly Ramparts, Steve Weissman lived for many years in London, working as a magazine writer and television producer. He now lives and works in France, where he writes for truthout.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Pie in the Sky




Ronald Wesso

Ronald Wesso has participated in anti-eviction and social housing campaigns and anti-privatisation and worker support committee projects.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - Housing, Questions, and the Rule of Law





Poetry, Fiction, Art



Nedhal Abbas

Nedhal Abbas is an Iraqi poet. She published her first book of poetry, Dreams of Invisible Pleasures, in Arabic, in 1999.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Poems from Iraq




Aaron Anderson

Aaron Anderson is currently a graduate student in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has published in various journals since 1999. He is presently researching his ongoing project entitled 'In the Chambers of the Prince: George W. Bush, Evangelism, and the Cult of the State'.

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - A Call to Patricide and other poems




Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit is a professor with the Chicago City Colleges, co-founder of Global Initiative Chicago (GIChicago.org), and the founder of fightingpoverty.org.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2007 - Intervention and other poems
Winter 2010 - Support Our Troops




Mazviita Chirimuuta

Mazviita Chirimuuta is a research fellow in the Department of Philosophy at Monash University, Australia. Her current project is on the philosophy of science, in particular, neuroscience and the perception of colour.

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Letter to Elena from Joanna S.




Bryon Howell

Bryon D. Howell is a poet currently residing in New Haven, Connecticut. He has been writing poetry for a great number of years. Recently, work of his has appeared in poeticdiversity, Red River Review and The Quirk.

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2007 - The Underground Jail-road and other poems




Peter Lach-Newinsky

Peter Lach-Newinsky was born 1949, grew up bi-lingually (German/English) in Sydney, Australia and studied politics, philosophy and literature in Munich and Frankfurt in the late sixties/early seventies. He was involved in politicisation and activism in the German student and anti-authoritarian movement, worked for many years as a high school and adult migrant English teacher in Germany and Australia and has been in eco-activism since the mid seventies. He now maintains a productive 20 acre small farm in the highlands south-west of Sydney on permaculture lines with his wife and also works as a counsellor in private practice.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2007 - The Machiavelli to the Masters Suite




Little Big Pine

Little Big Pine: citizen, patriot, poet; may be reached at littlebigpine@gmail.com.

Contributions to SoN:
Summer 2006 - Uncle Sam Says
Sept/Oct 2006 - The Gift Outright: Outright Genocide
Nov/Dec 2006 - A Diff'rent Lesson
Winter 2007 - Pledge of Defiance
Spring 2007 - Everything They Teach You to Fear You Must Become
Summer 2007 - In My Heart of Hearts
Winter 2008 - Uncle Sam Loves All the Smells of War
Spring 2008 - American Apocalypse
Summer 2008 - Ocotillo Prayer
Autumn 2008 - Capsizer, Cursed Capsizer
Winter 2009 - Extraction Industries
Spring 2009 - Poem That Cannot Be Named
Summer 2009 - Shorebird
Autumn 2009 - The Poetry Will Be Waiting
Winter 2010 - Asymmetries of the Heart

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Stephanie McMillan

Stephanie McMillan has drawn cartoons since 1992, and self-syndicated Minimum Security since 1999. They've been included in group exhibitions at the Andy Warhol Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Cartoon Art, and will be in an upcoming 2006 exhibit, "She Draws Comics," at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art in NYC. Her cartoons are collected in a new book, Attitude Featuring Stephanie McMillan: Minimum Security, edited by Ted Rall. You can reach her at: steph@minimumsecurity.net

Contributions to SoN:
Spring 2006 - Minimum Security
Summer 2006 - Minimum Security




J A Miller

J.A. Miller is a grandmother activist from the Middle West who spent many years traveling and studying in the Middle East. She has published essays on Counterpunch and DissidentVoice as well as poems in the manner of the Burma Shave highway signs of her youth at www.PoeticInjustice.net, some of which will be included in their upcoming anthology, Poets for Palestine. Miller is currently writing a book on the Protestant origin of the Zionist project. She can be reached at jsec_miller@hotmail.com

Contributions to SoN:
Autumn 2005 - Saudi Israelia
Summer 2007 - When Determinisms Clash
Autumn 2008 - Apres Bush
Spring 2009 - The Protestant Boycott of the UN Conference on Racism, 2009
Winter 2010 - They Just Keep Coming after the Palestinians




Victoria Morgan

Dr Victoria Morgan has a PhD in English Literature and has research interests in women's writing and spirituality. She is co-editor of a collection of essays, which includes by Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, called Shaping Belief: Culture, Politics and Religion in Nineteenth-Century Writing (Liverpool University Press, 2008). She teaches English Literature in the UK and writes poetry whenever she can. She can be contacted at vnmorgan@hotmail.com

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - City of Light




Farzana Versey

Farzana Versey is the author of the forthcoming book A Journey Interrupted: Being Indian in Pakistan. She can be reached at kaaghaz.kalam@gmail.com

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2008 - I, Brown Woman




Haifa Zangana

Haifa Zangana was born in Baghdad in 1950, graduated from Baghdad University, School of Pharmacy in 1974, and has lived in London since 1976. Her books include Through the Vast Halls of Memory (1990), The Ants Nest (1996), Beyond What the Eye Sees (1997), The Presence of Others (1999), Keys to a City (2000), and Women on a Journey (to be published in English by Texas Un Press, 2006). She is also editor and publisher of “Halabja” - Iraqi and Arab writers and artists homage to the Kurdish town (Arabic & English), a contributor to European and Arabic publications such as The Guardian, Red pepper, Al Ahram weekly and Al Quds (weekly comment), a founding member of the International Association of Contemporary Iraqi Studies and a member of the advisory board of the Brussel’s Tribunal on Iraq

Contributions to SoN:
Winter 2006 - Poems from Iraq