Ziauddin Sardar

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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The right way to "do God"

  • 31 January 2008
  • 6 comments

We need a more challenging idea of religion.

Don't put your girl in TV, Mrs Worthington

  • 24 January 2008
  • 1 comment

Behind the sparkle and allure of broadcasting, a new kind of slave trade is developing

A revenger's tragedy

  • 03 January 2008
  • 23 comments

The intelligence services and religious extremists were behind the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, argues Ziauddin Sardar, and politicians have been too preoccupied with settling old scores to fight for real democracy

A common heritage for global peace

  • 06 December 2007
  • 6 comments

It is just not good enough to say that love of God will conquer all differences and usher in peace and harmony all around

Benazir and the General

  • 08 November 2007
  • 8 comments

Never before has a military-backed government found it necessary to initiate its own military coup

The battle at Islam's heart

  • 01 November 2007
  • 6 comments

In November 1979, armed militants took over Mecca's Sacred Mosque. Their actions still reverberate throughout the Muslim world.

A country at war

  • 25 October 2007
  • 13 comments

In the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto we revisit our October special on Pakistan in which Ziauddin Sardar predicted the country was about to descend deeper into violence. Plus Rageh Omaar on the wild borderlands of Waziristan

Muslims have a sense of humour

  • 11 October 2007
  • 3 comments

In Britain we've had gay sitcoms, black sitcoms and even a couple of Indian sitcoms but Muslim sitcoms?

Lifting the veil on the Islamic catwalk

  • 27 September 2007
  • 8 comments

Our own Shazia Mirza has become an icon of Islamic fashion thanks to a style that combines fashion, religion, politics and aesthetics to signal a new Islamic cosmopolitanism

British citizens of history

  • 13 September 2007
  • 3 comments

Jack Straw's green paper The Governance of Britain, published in July, has provided the best laugh I've had in years

Green heroes

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Bjorn Lomborg

Cloud control

Cloud control

Interview

Omar Bin Laden

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What if...

Hugh Gaitskell lived

What if... Hugh Gaitskell had lived

James Macintyre

Brown at war

Like it or not, Brown’s a war leader

Will Self

On brands

We’re all with the brand

Film review

A Serious Man

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