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You can take a peek at the Introduction to my new book From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy, as well as read reviews of it.
My last book, Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate was longlisted for the Royal Society 2009 Science Book of the Year Prize. Read the Foreword and the reviews.
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kenan malik

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Malik's rationalism'
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The Rushdie affair has shaped all our lives.
This book shows us
how."
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Aftenposten
10 February 2010
The Moral Maze
BBC Radio 4
20.00
Also on the panel: Claire Fox and Clifford Longley. Details to come.
24 February 2010
The Moral Maze
BBC Radio 4
20.00
Also on the panel: Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo and Clifford Longley. Details to come.