Syria, 1988
Aeham Ahmad
pianist
Speakers and authors
The journal Nexus was founded in 1991, the Nexus Institute three years later. Since then, a large number of international thinkers, artists, scholars and politicians have published in Nexus or taken part in one of the Institute’s activities. Below you find an overview of all our authors and speakers.
United States
Barbara Nissman
pianist
Argentina, 1942
Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo
bishop and philosopher
India, 1973
Nelofer Pazira
filmmaker and writer
Canada, 1954
Steven Pinker
cognitive scientist
Syria, 1975
Khaldoun Al Nabwani
philosopher
Iraq, 1949
Kanan Makiya
writer
Netherlands, 1991
Jilt Jorritsma
historian
Czech Republic, 1896 - 1944
Milena Jesenská
journalist and writer
Libya
Farida Allaghi
human rights activist
Iraq, 1971
Rodaan Al Galidi
writer
Croatia, 1956
Miroslav Volf
theologian
Turkey, 1971
Elif Shafak
writer
Germany, 1906 - 1975
Hannah Arendt
political philosopher
Zimbabwe
Douglas Mwonzora
political activist
United States
Leif Wenar
legal philosopher
Israel, 1931 – 2020
Adin Steinsaltz
rabbi, Talmud scholar
United States, 1953
Jeb Bush
businessman and politician
United Kingdom, 1909 - 1995
Stephen Spender
poet, writer and essayist
United States, 1951
Sean Wilentz
Professor of American History at Princeton
United States, 1946
Derek Shearer
professor of diplomacy and world affairs
United States, 1954
Randall Kennedy
professor of Law
Canada, 1959
Eugene Czolij
lawyer and president of Ukrainian World Congress
Russia, 1948
Natalia Narochnitskaya
Russian historian, former Duma member