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 - In search of the sound of silence
- 14 June 1999
Only when Ziauddin Sardar endured the maddening racket of the natural world did he grasp the sense in which modern city-dwellers have gone deaf
Culture
Science friction
- 31 May 1999
What do Star Trek, orientalism and America's fear of Japan have in common? Everything
Politics
Politeness is a racist's secret weapon
- 03 May 1999
Ziauddin Sardar finds the bigotry of the respectable worse than a bomb in Brick Lane
Culture
Playing the game I
- 26 April 1999
New films by David Cronenberg and Chris Marker share a fascination with computer games and their metaphors. Ziauddin Sardar plugs in to eXistenZ
Politics
Where are my Muslim brethren?
- 19 April 1999
Ziauddin Sardarfears another holocaust in Europe, but the Islamic states couldn't care less
Books
Small Presses Special - British Think-Tanks and the Climate of Opinion
- 09 April 1999
British Think-Tanks and the Climate of Opinion Andrew Denham and Mark Garnett UCL Press, 228pp, £38 hardback/232pp, £12.95 paperback
Politics
How Mecca became a death-trap
- 26 March 1999
This is the week of the hadj, the most sacred ritual in the Muslim calendar. Ziauddin Sardar implores the Saudis to avoid further disasters by making people walk
