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Danny Postel
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Politics Editor, New Lines Magazine
Chicago
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Biography
Danny Postel is Politics Editor at New Lines Magazine. Previously he was Senior Editor of the London-based magazine openDemocracy; a staff writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education in Washington, D.C.; Editor of The Common Review, the magazine of the Chicago-based Great Books Foundation; Contributing Editor to Dædalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences; and an online editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. He is the author of “Reading Legitimation Crisis in Tehran” (2006) and co-editor of three books: “The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future” (2010), “The Syria Dilemma” (2013), and “Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East” (2017). He is currently editing a volume exploring the legacies of the international relations theorist and Middle East scholar Fred Halliday. Danny was Associate Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver and Assistant Director of the Center for International and Area Studies at Northwestern University, where he coordinated programming for the university’s Middle East and North African Studies Program and its Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. He also taught international studies at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and magazine journalism at Columbia College Chicago. His writing has appeared in The American Prospect, Boston Review, The Cairo Review of Global Affairs, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Critical Inquiry, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, the Deusto Journal of Human Rights, Dissent, Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs, The Guardian, The Huffington Post, In These Times, Logos: A Journal of Modern Society and Culture, Middle East Report (MERIP), The Nation, New Politics, the New York Times, The Progressive, Salmagundi and the Washington Post. He has traveled throughout the Middle East, Latin America and Europe. For several years he taught Spanish at an elementary school in Chicago and English as a Foreign Language to migrants from Latin America. He wrote about Latin music for the alt-weekly Chicago paper New City and reviewed Latin American films for the Spanish-language newspaper La Raza. His work has been translated into Arabic, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Spanish.
social movements,politics, social theory war, political theory, US foreign policy human rights, philosophy, intellectuals geopolitics, ideology, Middle East culture, international affairs, ideas
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Company Info
New Lines Magazine
New Lines Magazine is a digital and print publication that launched in October 2020. It focuses on long-form international reporting, emphasizing local perspectives. Founded by Hassan Hassan, the magazine is supported by a remote team of 25 journalists and experts from around the world and operates under the New Lines Institute. The magazine's mission is to deliver in-depth, region-specific journalism by authors who are native to or deeply familiar with the areas they cover. It publishes long-form articles, essays, and investigative reports on topics such as politics, culture, and conflict, prioritizing local voices. New Lines Magazine is available in both digital and print formats, with a growing emphasis on multimedia storytelling. It aims to cover underreported global issues, blending analysis with narrative journalism, and targets readers interested in international affairs, policymakers, and academics.
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Founded: 2020