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<p>This is an archive of my work including <a href="top/books.html">books</a>,
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My latest book <a href="top/shop.html"><em>From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy</em></a> was shortlisted for the <a href="javascript:;" onclick="MM_openBrWindow('http://theorwellprize.co.uk/shortlists/filter/type-Book%20Prize/year-2010/','orwellprize','toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=800,height=600')">2010 George Orwell Book Prize</a>. You can read the <a href="papers/fatwa_intro.html">Introduction</a> as well as <a href="critics/books/fatwa.html">reviews</a> of the book. You can also listen to it as an <a href="javascript:;" onclick="MM_openBrWindow('http://www.audible.co.uk/aduk/site/product.jsp?p=BK_ADBL_002343UK&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes','audiblefatwa','toolbar=yes,location=yes,status=yes,menubar=yes,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=800,height=600')">audiobook</a>.</p>
<p>My essay on <a href="http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/christian-europe/" target="_blank">Rethinking the Idea of 'Christian Europe'</a> has won the 2011 <a href="http:///www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2011/12/the-winners-of-the-3qd-2011-politics-social-science-prize.html" target="_blank">3QD Politics and Social Science Prize</a>.<br />
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<h1><em>From Fatwa<br />
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<p>"Gripping... <br />The Rushdie affair has shaped all our lives. <br />This book shows us
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Robert McCrum<br /><em>Observer</em></p>
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Bryan Appleyard<br /><em>Sunday Times</em></p>
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Theodore Dalrymple<br /><em>City Journal</em></p>
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Lindsay Johns<br /><em>New Humanist</em> </p>
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Henrik Gade Jensen, <br /><em>Jyllands-Posten</em> </p>
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Bent Blüdnikow, <br /><em>Berlingske Tidende</em> </p>
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Henning Lyngsbo, <br /><em>Historie-online.dk</em> </p>
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Nazneen Khan-Østrem<br /><em>Aftenposten</em> </p>
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<strong><font size="5">"</font></strong>Faith has transformed itself into the religious wing of identity politics. Religion has, ironically, become secularised, driven less by a search for piety and holiness than for identity and belongingness. The rise of identity politics has transformed the meaning not just of religion but of blasphemy too. Blasphemy used to be regarded as a sin against God. These days it is felt as a sin against the individual believer, an offence against the self and one’s identity. <font size="5">"</font><br /><br />
<a href="lectures/beyond_the_sacred.html">'Beyond the sacred'<br />
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<strong><font size="5">"</font></strong>There is a long history, reaching back into the Raj, of applying heavy handed censorship supposedly to ease fraught relationships between different communities. It is a process that in recent decades has greatly intensified. Hand in hand with more oppressive censorship has come, however, not a more peaceful society, but one in which the sense of a common nation has increasingly broken down into sectarian rivalries, as every group demands its right not to be offended. <font size="5">"</font><br /><br />
<a href="essays/pandaemonium_jaipur.html">'To name the unnameable'<br />
<em>Pandaemonium</em><br />22 January 2012</a>
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Terrorism has come to be presented as self-evident, the use of unconscionable violence to undermine basic freedoms and liberties. But, as the response to the Iranian assassinations reveals, ‘terrorism’ remains a deeply politicized concept. Iran is a terrorist state. Saudi Arabia, despite probably sponsoring more terrorist groups, and despite being equally undemocratic and brutal, is a valued Western ally. The murder of an Iranian citizen is a justified act. Plotting to kill a Saudi official is international terrorism.<font size="5">"</font><br /><br />
<a href="essays/bergens_terrorism.html">'The terrorists that are and<br /> the terrorists that aren't'<br />
<em>Bergens Tidende</em><br />17 January 2012</a>
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<strong><font size="5">"</font></strong>Suppose that Oliver Brüstle had patented a technique to produce neurons from adult, rather than embryonic, stem cells. Would Greenpeace have objected? Unlikely. The key issue, therefore, is not that of patents but that of the legal and moral status of embryos, and of cells that derive from them. <font size="5">"</font><br /><br />
<a href="debates/greenpeace_embryo.html">'Embryo research, scientific patents and Greenpeace:<br /> a debate'<br />
<em>Göteborgs Posten</em><br />2 January 2012</a>
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<strong><font size="5">"</font></strong>The depth of the economic crisis has led to talk of a ‘crisis of capitalism’. And yet, unlike in the 1930s, or the 1980s, there is today no political challenge to capitalism. Workers’ organizations have been destroyed, the left has imploded, as has the idea that there could be an alternative to the market system. As a result, despite the economic crisis, capital has never been so ascendant over labour. The one depressing certainty of 2012 is that capitalism is likely to end the year economically weaker, but politically stronger. <font size="5">"</font><br /><br />
<a href="essays/bergens_2012.html">'A year of momentous change and of little change'<br />
<em>Bergens Tidende</em><br />2 January 2012</a>
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<p><strong>14 March 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11" target="_blank"><em>The Moral Maze</em></a><br />
BBC Radio 4<br /> 20.00</strong><br /><br />
Also on the panel are Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo and Clifford Longley.</p>
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<p><strong>23 March 2012<br />
<a href="http://russiantvcohesion.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Is Multiculturalism in Crisis?</a><br />
Samuel Alexander Theatre, <br />University of Manchester<br />Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL<br />16.00-18.00</strong><br /><br />
Debate with Mary Dejevsky (<em>Independent</em>), Jon Gower Davies (author and academic), Alexei Miller (Russian Academy of Sciences), Tariq Modood (Bristol University Research Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship) and Erik van Ree (University of Amsterdam). Details from the <a href="http://russiantvcohesion.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank">University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>28 March 2012<br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qk11" target="_blank"><em>The Moral Maze</em></a><br />
BBC Radio 4<br /> 20.00</strong><br /><br />
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<p><strong>26 May 2012<br />
<a href="http://brightonfestival.org/event/711/index_on_censorship/" target="_blank">Where do you draw the line?</a><br />
Brighton Dome,<br /> Corn Exchange<br />Church Street, Brighton,<br /> BN1 1UG <br />16.30</strong><br /><br />
I am chairing a discussion with audience and panelists about how, when and why we censor ourselves. Part of the Brighton Festival, it is organized by <a href="http:///www.indexoncensorship.org/" target="_blank">Index on Censorship</a> in collaboration with tthe DV8 dance company, and its show <a href="http://brightonfestival.org/event/563/can_we_talk_about_this/" target="_blank">Can We Talk About This?</a> Details and tickets from the <a href="http://brightonfestival.org/" target="_blank">Brigton Festival</a>.</p>
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