Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He is Senior Visting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey. He is a presenter of Analysis, BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs programme and a panelist on the Moral Maze. His books include From Fatwa to Jihad (2009), Strange Fruit (2008), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000), and The Meaning of Race (1996).
Malik was born in India, brought up in Manchester and now lives in London. He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London). He was for a number of years a research psychologist at the Centre for Research into Perception and Cognition (CRPC) at the University of Sussex, working on problems of the mental representation of spatial relations. For the past decade, he has been an independent writer, lecturer, researcher and broadcaster.
Kenan Malik, Strange fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate. Oneworld 2008.
Celebrating diversity or equality? by Marek Kohn, Eagle Street, June 1997
Diane Abbott draws Finns into British race debate, Eagle Street, March 1997
The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism, By Tariq Ramadan, The Independent, 13 August 2010
Death of the university? kenanmalik.com, 27 May 2010
What realignment of politics means, The Guardian/Comment is free, 1 May 2010
Multiculturalism undermines diversity, The Guardian/Comment is free, 17 March 2010
The Black Album: A work in progress, The Independent, 21 July 2009
Shadow boxing, New Humanist, May/June 2009
After the fatwa, the free speech wars, spiked, 24 April 2009
From Fatwa to Jihad, Harry's place, 23 April 2009
Pickled Exclusive: an extract from Fatwa to Jihad, 21 April 2009
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy by Kenan Malik by Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times, 5 April 2009
Kureishi on the Rushdie Affair, Prospect Magazine, April 2009
Race obsession harms those it is meant to help, The Sunday Times, 29 March 2009
A marketplace of outrage, New Statesman, 12 March 2009
Wilders shore of free speech endangered, The Australian, 16 February 2009
Exploding the fatwa myths, The Guardian/Comment is free, 12 February 2009
Salman Rushdie: The book-burning that changed Britain for ever, The Sunday Times, 1 February 2009
Twenty years on: internalising the fatwa, spiked , 21 November 2008
Walking on eggshells, The Guardian/Comment is free, 1 October 2008
Self-censor and be damned!, The Times, 29 September 2008
How the West was lost for free speech, The Australian, 26 September 2008
Out of bonds, Index on Censorship, Autumn 2008
The race debate: nothing to do with race, The Times, 2 July 2008
Inject some intelligence into the race debate, The First Post, 2 July 2008
Review: Strange Fruit: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate by Kenan Malik by Ian Hacking, New Scientist, 18 June 2008
What goes on inside your head, The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2008
Islamophobia and Islamophilia, Weltwoche, 28 February 2008
The Archbishop and the Sharia, Bergens tidende, 14 February 2008
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