Apart from being the Director of Institute for Hungarian Unity, Gábor Margittai is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and editor. He graduated from the University of Szeged in 1996 with a degree in philosophy. In 2000, he obtained a PhD in literary studies with summa cum laude honors. He worked in the press for nearly three decades: from 1997 to 1999, he was a section editor for the Hungarian Writers' Association's literary magazine, Magyar Napló, and from 2000 to 2023, he served as the editor and later the editor-in-chief of the weekend magazine of Magyar Nemzet. He is one of the founders of the Külső Magyarok minority research mission. Between 2019 and 2022, he received the literary scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. His research area includes the situation, marginal existence, and fate of Hungarian diaspora communities in the Carpathian Basin and beyond since the regime change, presented in literary-quality reports, essays, documentary novels, films, and traveling exhibitions. With this goal, he organized expeditions to lesser-known regions of the Carpathian Basin, Muslim North Africa, Anatolia, traveled to the Kazakh steppes and Mediterranean Europe, following legends and facts. Closely related to this, he also undertook research on the ethnic problems and prisoner of war situations of World War I, uncovering the history of the lost army and captive soldiers of Donkey Island, among others. His work aims to explore the Central European connections, divergences, and dimensions between center and periphery.