Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar, writer and broadcaster, describes himself as a ‘critical polymath’. He is the author of over 40 books, including the highly acclaimed ‘Desperately Seeking Paradise’. He is Visiting Professor, School of Arts, the City University, London and editor of ‘Futures’, the monthly journal of planning, policy and futures studies.
Articles by Ziauddin Sardar
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Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Hype at the end of the tunnel
- 19 November 2001
Hollywood uses it; so did the Nazis. Ziauddin Sardar on the world's most potent drug
Politics
Sultans of spin - or of truth?
- 22 October 2001
Al-Jazeera television has led the way in exposing Arab power abuses
Politics
A choice between Satan and madmen
- 24 September 2001
Terror in America: Pakistan - Ziauddin Sardar on the awful dilemmas of a country in such trouble that it is basically run by the international banks
Politics
Where is the hand of my God in this horror?
- 17 September 2001
Terror in America - An ordinary Muslim, Ziauddin Sardar cannot recognise his religion in either the fanatics' deeds or in the media descriptions of "these people"
Politics
More Hackney than Bollywood
- 30 July 2001
The race issue - The British want ethnic minorities to be romantic, exotic, and above all non-Muslim. It's just another way of saying that we don't belong here, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Politics
A dying body attracts vultures
- 04 June 2001
Ziauddin Sardar in riot-torn Oldham finds no scent of curry, no sound of Bollywood, no evidence of electioneering: "an Asian area quite unlike any I have ever seen"
Politics
Among Asians, bakshish is just another word
- 26 March 2001
We call them bribes, but Indians may regard them just as a way of cementing social relations
Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Trapped in the human zoo
- 19 March 2001
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Celebrity is now the world's main currency, the key to success for good causes as well as for film studios. Ziauddin Sardarargues that the price is too high
Fat chance
- 26 February 2001
Science - Fat is not a disease, so don't try to cure it, argues Ziauddin Sardar
Politics
Brotherhood of man and roundworm
- 19 February 2001
The left can celebrate the latest news on genes, but not too much
