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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Society
Let my son and me teach you how to smoke
- 21 June 2007
- 1 comment
Anti-smoking legislation is about to snuff out Britain's emerging shisha culture
Global Issues
Lies, damned lies and terrorists
- 21 May 2007
- 2 comments
Most low-intensity attacks against businesses and governments are carried out by terrorists who have nothing to do with Islam
Asia
Pakistan: The Taliban takeover
- 30 April 2007
- 19 comments
Pakistan is reverberating with the call of jihad. Taliban-style militias are spreading rapidly out from provinces in the far north-west. The danger to the country and to the rest of the world is escalating
Religion
What's your definition of terrorism?
- 16 April 2007
- 2 comments
Before we confront terrorism we have to be able to define it
Religion
What Egyptian cinema can teach us
- 02 April 2007
- 1 comment
How film can offer a complex reading of the origins and motivations of Muslim fundamentalists
Religion
A believer's guide to scepticism
- 19 March 2007
- 4 comments
The danger of beliefs that spare no room for doubt
Religion
Fifteen minutes of Muslim fame
- 05 March 2007
- 1 comment
A 'power list' of British Muslims has nothing to do with real power
Religion
Not such a brave new world
- 19 February 2007
How new technology comes wrapped in hyperbole but seldom does what it says on the box
