This is an archive of my work including books,
broadcasts, essays, reviews, papers, talks,
interviews and debates,
together with reviews of my work and discussions
of my ideas. There is also a biog and a bookshop. I have a blog, Pandaemonium, separate from this archive and a new photoblog, another lonely pixel.
My latest book From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy was shortlisted for the 2010 George Orwell Book Prize. You can read the Introduction as well as reviews of the book. You can also listen to it as an audiobook.
My essay on Rethinking the Idea of 'Christian Europe' has won the 2011 3QD Politics and Social Science Prize.
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kenan malik

'a most accomplished writer'
Roy Porter
'clear, sharp and eloquent'
Mary Midgley
'three cheers for
Malik's rationalism'
New Scientist
'few targets escape his
forensic intelligence'
Observer
'we need more people
like him'
Financial Times

"Gripping...
The Rushdie affair has shaped all our lives.
This book shows us
how."
Hanif Kureishi

"Riveting political history... Impeccably researched, brimming with detail, yet razor-sharp in its argument"
Lisa Appignanesi
Independent

"An important intervention in the debate on freedom of expression"
Monica Ali

"Few writers have untangled the paradoxes and unintended consequences of political Islam as deftly as Malik"
Maureen Freely
Washington Post

"Enthralling"
Robert McCrum
Observer

"Terrific"
Bryan Appleyard
Sunday Times
"Valuable and sophisticated"
Theodore Dalrymple
City Journal
"Seldom can a book have had a more searing relevance to contemporary events"
Lindsay Johns
New Humanist
"One of the best analysis of today's conflicts"
Henrik Gade Jensen,
Jyllands-Posten
"Indepensable"
Bent Blüdnikow,
Berlingske Tidende
"Dazzlingly well written...indispensable "
Henning Lyngsbo,
Historie-online.dk

"Elegant...
A necessary book"
Nazneen Khan-Østrem
Aftenposten

"An admirable piece of reportage... subtle and intelligent"
Stuart Kelly
Scotsman
"Scalpel-sharp"
Saif Shahin
Mail Today
"Detailed and arresting"
Sudeep Paul
Indian Express
22 January 2012
The Myths of 'Christian Europe'
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square,
London WC1R 4RL
11.00
Details and tickets from the Conway Hall.
28 January 2012
Blasphemy!
Conway Hall
25 Red Lion Square,
London WC1R 4RL
11.00-16.30
A conference organized by the Centre for Inquiry on the criminalization of religious hatred, defamation, and insult under European human rights, and how this functions as a de facto blasphemy law. I am giving a talk on the use of the idea of the sacred to constrain speech and behaviour. Details and tickets from the CFI and the British Humanist Association
3 Februray 2012
Why I am an atheist
Trinity College
Stoke Hill, Stoke Bishop
Bristol BS9 1JP
11.10
I am explaining to theology students why I don't believe.
8 February 2012
The Moral Maze
BBC Radio 4
20.00
Also on the panel are Michael Portillo, Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor.
16 Februray 2012
A Conversation with
Patrick French
National Portrait Gallery
St Martin's Place
London WC2H 0HE
19.00
I am talking to Patrick French about his new book India: A Portrait. Details and tickets from the NPG
24 February 2012
Any Questions?
BBC Radio 4
20.00
My debut on the show.
29 February 2012
The Moral Maze
BBC Radio 4
20.00
Also on the panel are Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor.
14 March 2012
The Moral Maze
BBC Radio 4
20.00
Also on the panel are Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo and Clifford Longley.
23 March 2012
Is Multiculturalism in Crisis?
Samuel Alexander Theatre,
University of Manchester
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
16.00-18.00
Debate with Mary Dejevsky (Independent), 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 University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures.
28 March 2012
The Moral Maze
BBC Radio 4
20.00
Also on the panel are Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox and Michael Portillo.