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Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC. He was Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Adviser under Geoge W. Bush. Read more

David Abulafia

David Abulafia is Professor of Mediterranean History at Cambridge and a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College. His latest book is The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (Allen Lane).

John Adamson

John Adamson is a Fellow of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Noble Revolt: the Overthrow of Charles I.

Houriya Ahmed

Houriya Ahmed is a research fellow at the Centre for Social Cohesion and co-author of Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy. Read more

Robin Aitken

Robin Aitken is a former BBC journalist and published Can We Trust the BBC? after more than 25 years of service.

Edward Alexander

Edward Alexander is emeritus professor of English at University of Washington in Seattle. His most recent book (co-edited with Paul Bogdanor) is The Jewish Divide Over Israel: Accusers and Defenders.

Brian Allen

Brian Allen is Director of Studies at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London. Read more

Ellen Alpsten

Ellen Alpsten was born and grew up in Kenya. After working as a producer and a presenter on Bloomberg TV, she is now a full-time author and journalist.

Louis Amis

Louis Amis is a is a freelance writer, book reviewer and reporter.

Topaz Amoore

Topaz Amoore is a former foreign editor of the Daily Telegraph. She lives in Rome.

Digby Anderson

Digby Anderson is the founder director of the Social Affairs Unit. His most recent book is The English at Table (Social Affairs Unit). Read more

Hephzibah Anderson

Hephzibah Anderson contributes regularly to the Observer and the Daily Mail in the UK, and writes a column on sex and the media for Adweek in the US. She is the author of a memoir, Chastened (Vintage).

Alec Ash

Alec Ash is a contributor to Chinese Characters, published in September by UC Press. He runs literary interviews for The Browser. Read more

Anna Aslanyan

Anna Aslanyan is a translator and journalist. She contributes to 3:AM magazine and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Read more

Francisco J. Ayala

Francisco J. Ayala is an evolutionary geneticist and molecular biologist and the recipient of the 2010 Templeton Prize. Read more