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Mohamad Bazzi is Associate Professor of Journalism at New York University and former Middle East Bureau Chief at Newsday, where he was the lead writer on the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath.A former ...

Tobias Hübinette is a Senior Lecturer at Karlstad University. He is a member of the Research Group for Culture Studies (KuFo) and was previously responsible for the Forte-funded Research Network for ...