The Edition Creators & Guests

Oz Katerji is a journalist.

Dr. Lina Khatib is an authority on the Middle East. Her research focuses on the international relations of the Middle East, Islamist groups and security, political transitions and foreign policy, with special attention to the Syrian conflict. Currently, she is Director of the Middle East Institute at SOAS University of London. She also writes the weekly Middle East newsletter for the World Politics Review.Previously, Khatib was director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House, and was director of the Carnegie Middle East Center. Before that, she co-founded and led the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.Khatib has two books and has co-authored, edited, or co-edited four other books. She is a frequent writer and commentator on current affairs in the Middle East, with appearances on channels like CNN and BBC and op-eds in outlets such as Foreign Policy, TIME, Foreign Affairs, and the Guardian.Khatib is also a musician nad visual artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in group shows like Newtopia: The State of Human Rights (Mechelen, 2012) and a solo show, 24 Hours on Hamra Street (London, 2018). She is currently developing a theatrical piece on politics and society in the Middle East.

Dr. Jade McGlynn is an author and Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research focusses on Russia’s war against Ukraine since 2014, propaganda, memory politics, and state-society relations in Russia.McGlynn is a frequent contributor to BBC, Deutsche Welle, The Telegraph and The Spectator. She has published four books about Russia. Her first book, "Rethinking Period Boundaries: New Approaches to Continuity and Discontinuity in Modern European History and Culture," was published in 2022.Jade is also often engaged as a public speaker and to consult on issues of foreign policy, diplomacy and defence relating to Russia and Ukraine by governments and organisations in the UK, USA, and beyond.