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Foregrounding voices of colour
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author and international security scholar. He is establishing a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project for the global commons, Insurge Intelligence.
A former Guardian environment blogger, he writes the ‘System Shift’ column for VICE’s Motherboard, and is also a weekly columnist for Middle East Eye. He is the winner of a 2015 Project Censored Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for his Guardian work, and is featured in the Evening Standard’s ‘Power 1000’ list of most globally influential Londoners.
Nafeez has also written for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique, New Internationalist, Counterpunch, and Truthout, among others.
He is the author of A User’s Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It (2010), and the sci-fi thriller novel ZERO POINT, among other books. His work on the root causes and covert operations linked to international terrorism officially contributed to the 9/11 Commission and the 7/7 Coroner’s Inquest.
The idea of free speech is being deployed as a fig-leaf for privileged white commentators to justify the abuse of their ‘legal’ right to demonise people of colour writes Nafeez Ahmed Read More
Nafeez Ahmed explores the connections between the British media and far-right extremism Read More
Senior Tory peer and former Times editor, Lord Finkelstein, sits on board of think-tank promoting far-right racism and extremism by Nafeez Ahmed Lord Daniel Finkelstein, a close confidant of Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, has expressed his pride in providing a platform for racist far-right extremist views, and… Read More
