About Akin Ajayi

Freelance writer and editor. 10+ years experience as a feature writer and book reviewer for the Israeli national press; currently co-editor of the Tel Aviv Review of books (www.tarb.co.il). Academic language editor (and occasionally named co-writer) – principally in the humanities and social sciences; consultant across all stages of academic publishing (articles and books).

Akin Ajayi (@AkinAjayi) is a writer and editor, based in Tel Aviv.

NBN Episodes hosted by Akin:

Andreas Hackl, "The Invisible Palestinians: The Hidden Struggle for Inclusion in Jewish Tel Aviv" (Indiana UP, 2022)

September 27, 2022

The Invisible Palestinians

Andreas Hackl
Hosted by Akin Ajayi

The city of Tel Aviv presents itself as a bastion of liberal values, tolerance, and ultimately of freedom. But like many self-definitions, there is so…

Matt Reingold, "Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis" (Lexington, 2022)

July 11, 2022

Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons

Matt Reingold
Hosted by Akin Ajayi

Reenvisioning Israel Through Political Cartoons: Visual Discourses During the 2018-2021 Electoral Crisis (Lexington Books, 2022) by Matt Reingold, pub…

Moshe Shokeid, "Can Academics Change the World?: An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus" (Berghahn, 2020)

May 3, 2022

Can Academics Change the World?

Moshe Shokeid
Hosted by Akin Ajayi

AD KAN (NO MORE) was founded in 1988 by a group of academics at Tel Aviv University. The initiative, a public pressure group, was prompted by public i…