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Imagem da vida na cidade do Porto sob os arcos dos edifícios, 1984. Crédito: Nuno Félix da Costa.
Imagem da vida na cidade do Porto sob os arcos dos edifícios, 1984. Crédito: Nuno Félix da Costa.
Portugal was like this

The memory of a recent Portugal, one that we no longer recognise, in 17 photos. Photos taken on trips to the north and south of the country and on the...

19/11/2024
2 min
O passado pela frente
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Andreia Barbosa
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems, she worked as a producer of content for radio and television, directed documentaries and wrote fiction scripts. She is a founding member and vice-president of the Circular Economy Portugal association – CEP.
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Rita Figueiras
She is a researcher in the area of Political Communication, a professor at the Catholic University of Portugal and coordinator of the PhD in Communication Sciences at the same university. She is also a professor and visiting researcher at several international universities.
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Mário Augusto
He was born in Espinho, Vila Nova de Gaia in 1963. He has been a journalist since 1986 and writes and presents several programmes on SIC, TV Cine and RTP. He was deputy director of RTP 3. In addition to television, he works with several newspapers and magazines and is a radio chronicler, having spent much of his career working in the dissemination and analysis of cinema. He was the founder of SIC and he made several documentaries and wrote scripts for television. He works at RTP full time. He is the author of several film books, «Rear Window» and «As If It Were A Novel», as well as biographies of actors such as Charlie Chaplin and Philip Seymor Hoffman.
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Antony Beevor
British writer and historian. He studied Military History and served as an officer before leaving the army to write after five years.
He has published four novels and thirteen non-fiction books. His work is published in 34 foreign languages and has sold over eight and a half million copies. He is a member of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society.
He was a professor at the University of Cambridge, Birkbeck College and the University of Kent. In 2014, he won the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, presented by the Military Museum and Pritzker Library and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Service to History in 2016. In 2017, he was knighted on the New Year’s Honour List.

Last updated: November 2023
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Nuno Markl
Radio presenter, comedian and television host. He was a member of the Fictional Productions team and co-wrote «Herman Encyclopaedia», «Paradise Films», «The Maria Show» and «The Contemporaries». He was born in Lisbon in 1971.

Last updated: January 2024
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Seyla Benhabib
She is a professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and ran the Ethics, Politics and Economics Programme at the same university. She was president of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association and won the Ernst Bloch Award in 2009 for her contributions to cultural dialogue in a global civilisation. She received honorary degrees from the Humanistic University of Utrecht, the University of Valencia, the University of Bogazici in Istanbul and the University of Geneva. Her books have been translated into more than 10 languages.

Last updated: November 2023
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Jeremy Waldron
He is Professor at New York University School of Law. He researches and writes on jurisprudence and political theory. He has published articles and books on theories of rights, constitutionalism, the rule of law, democracy, judicial review, property, torture, security and homelessness, as well as historical political theory (Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill and Hannah Arendt). He received his doctorate from Oxford and has taught at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Berkeley and Columbia University.

Last updated: November 2023
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João Francisco Gomes
A journalist, he has a Bachelor's degree in Journalism from the School of Communication and Media Studies and a Master’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon.
He has been writing for the Observador since 2016. In 2017, he won the Dom Manuel Falcão Prize for Journalism, which distinguishes works on religious topics. He was one of the authors of a series of investigative reports on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Portugal, published in 2019 and won several journalism awards, including the Gazeta Multimedia Prize.
He is the author of the book «Rome, We Have a Problem. How the Catholic Church dealt with Two Thousand Years of Sexual Abuse» (Tinta-da-China, 2021).
He was born in Leiria in 1995.
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Carlos Maria Bobone
He is 29 years old and a second-hand book seller. He started selling books at Anchieta Street Fair, worked at the Artes e Letras bookshop while doing his course and, after getting his Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, he went to work at the Bizantina bookshop, founded by his father. He also works with the «Observador», where he writes, of course, about books.