Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
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Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is an environment writer for The Guardian, where he tracks the geopolitics of interconnected environmental, energy, and economic crises via his Earth Insight column.

A bestselling author, investigative journalist, international security scholar, policy expert, film-maker, strategy & communications consultant, and change activist, Nafeez is founding Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD), an independent nonprofit digital transmedia think tank for the public interest.

His latest book is 'A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It' (2010), and his award-winning documentary feature film of the book is, 'The Crisis of Civilization' (2011).

Nafeez has also written for the Independent on Sunday, Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Le Monde diplomatique, Foreign Policy, New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, Open Democracy, Raw Story and New Internationalist. He has taught at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex and Brunel University's Politics & History Unit.

His other books are The London Bombings (2006); The War on Truth (2005); Behind the War on Terror (2003) and The War on Freedom (2002). As a regular media commentator he has appeared on BBC News 24, BBC World Today, BBC World News, BBC Radio Five Live, BBC Asian Network, Channel 4, Sky News, C-SPAN Book TV, CNN, FOX News, Bloomberg, PBS Foreign Exchange, Al-Jazeera English, US National Public Radio.

Nafeez has advised the British Foreign Office, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, UK Defence Academy, Metropolitan Police Service, Home Office Channel Project, UK Parliamentary Select Committee for Communities on Prevent, and many others. In 2005, he testified in US Congress on Western security policy toward al-Qaeda.

Blog Entries by Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Seven Myths About the Iraq War: How BBC Newsnight Failed Journalism on the 10 Year Invasion Anniversary

(10) Comments | Posted 26 February 2013 | (17:13)

Abridged from The Cutting Edge

As a participant in the BBC Newsnight special, 'Iraq - 10 Years On', I found myself feeling slightly miffed at the lack of real debate on the crucial issues.

Newsnight presented some deeply questionable narratives of the war and its aftermath...

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The Frack Farce

(1) Comments | Posted 14 December 2012 | (12:00)

The UK government's decision to resume fracking has been welcomed by the oil industry, and widely lambasted by environmental campaigners. But to a large extent the debate about the potential of shale gas in this country has completely missed the point.

While Prime Minister David Cameron this week...

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The Myth of the Free Press: Why You Should Ignore the Fake 'Free Speech Naysayers

(1) Comments | Posted 29 November 2012 | (12:56)

When pundits and editors and politicians over the next few days and weeks insist that Leveson's recommendations should be ignored because they endanger the sacred principle of freedom of the press, ask yourself one simple question.

Whose payroll are they on?

Invariably, they are either on...

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Abu Qatada: The Asset We Can't Get Rid of

(1) Comments | Posted 15 November 2012 | (15:58)

The debate about Abu Qatada's untimely release from prison boils down to two, simplistic, polarised narratives. On the one hand, we have a pro-civil liberties, human rights perspective which lauds the government's inability to deport Qatada back to Jordan where he faces the prospect of torture and possibly death. On...

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Extradition: A Victory for Terror

(0) Comments | Posted 25 September 2012 | (16:41)

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that five British terror suspects, the most notorious of which is the self-styled ex-Finsbury Park mosque cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, can be extradited to the United States to be tried on terrorism charges.

While the usual cheerleaders and...

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In the Shadow of Fiction: How Television Is Making (Up) Muslim History

(296) Comments | Posted 31 August 2012 | (00:00)

In Channel 4's Islam: the Untold Story, aired 28 August, British writer Tom Holland - garbed Indiana Jones-style in billowing shirt and trusty hat - treks across the Arabian desert, talking to local Bedouins, and inspecting historical artefacts to investigate the origins of Islam. Muhammed, he concludes, probably never came...

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Somalia - Light at the End of the Tunnel?

(0) Comments | Posted 24 August 2012 | (14:22)

Ever since 'Black Hawk Down', Somalia is not known as a country bearing good news. For over 20 years, the country has lacked a stable central government and been wracked by civil war.

But for the first time, it looks as if this grim state of affairs might change....

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Time to Hold the Media to Account for Islamophobia

(46) Comments | Posted 18 July 2012 | (11:36)

Over a decade after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington - and seven years after the London bombings - questions about Islam, Muslims and their place in the wider Western world continue to foment strong debate. One only needs to look at Mehdi Hasan's recent observations on the...

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