Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He is Senior Visting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey. He is a presenter of Analysis, BBC Radio 4's flagship current affairs programme and a panelist on the Moral Maze. His books include From Fatwa to Jihad (2009), Strange Fruit (2008), Man, Beast and Zombie (2000), and The Meaning of Race (1996).
Malik was born in India, brought up in Manchester and now lives in London. He studied neurobiology (at the University of Sussex) and history and philosophy of science (at Imperial College, London). He was for a number of years a research psychologist at the Centre for Research into Perception and Cognition (CRPC) at the University of Sussex, working on problems of the mental representation of spatial relations. For the past decade, he has been an independent writer, lecturer, researcher and broadcaster.
Kenan Malik, Strange fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate. Oneworld 2008.
Celebrating diversity or equality? by Marek Kohn, Eagle Street, June 1997
Diane Abbott draws Finns into British race debate, Eagle Street, March 1997
To name the unnameable, Pandaemonium, 22 January 2012
The terrorists that are and the terrorists that aren't, Pandaemonium, 16 January 2012
A book in progress [Part 12]: Hegel and Rousseau, freedom and history, Pandaemonium, 8 January 2012
On human dignity, embryonic stem cells and the shame of Greenpeace, Pandaemonium, 5 January 2012
Chewing over the old year, spitting out the new, Pandaemonium, 2 January 2012
Antigone across the ages, Pandaemonium, 27 December 2011
Some arguments never die, Pandaemonium, 15 December 2011
A book in progress [Part 11]: Hume, Is and Ought, Pandaemonium, 12 November 2011
Canada's multiculturalism is no model for Europe, The Guardian/Comment is free, 6 December 2011
Outrage! Outrage! Oh, let me be ouraged!, Pandaemonium, 2 December 2011
Immigration and citizenship in Europe, kenanmalik.com, 17 November 2011
Politics without democracy, democracy without politics, kenanmalik.com, 9 November 2011
A book in progress [Part 10]: Spinoza'es Ethics, Pandaemonium, 6 November 2011
The last crusade, New Humanist, November/December 2011
On evil, Pandaemonium, 30 October 2011
Turning morality on its embryonic head, kenanmalik.com, 23 October 2011
The morality of the euro crisis, kenanmalik.com, 11 October 2011
God, the universe and and a bacon sarnie, Pandaemonium, 10 October 2011
Five books on marality without god, The Browser, 23 September 2011
In praise of Ray Tallis, Pandaemonium, 21 September 2011
Myths and realities of 9/11, Bergens Tidende, 9 September 2011
Moral poverty and the riots, kenanmalik.com, 14 August 2011
Five quick points about the riots, Pandaemonium, 9 August 2011
A book in progress [Part 7]: Islam and Rationalism, Pandaemonium, 6 August 2011
The tragic ironies of Breivik's terror, Pandaemonium, 30 July 2011
The Best Way to Deal With Xenophobia, The New York Times, 27 July 2011
Assimilation's Failure, Terrorism's Rise, The New York Times, 6 July 2011
A book in progress [Part 6]: Islam, origins and ethics, Pandaemonium, 3 July 2011
A book in progess [Part 5]: God and evil, Pandaemonium, 19 June 2011
The science of seeing what you want to see, Pandaemonium, 12 June 2011
Gossip, privacy and censorship, Pandaemonium, 13 May 2011
Torture works? So oppose it, Pandaemonium, 6 May 2011
Killed by american bullets, buried by arab revolts, kenanmalik.com, 3 May 2011
Test-tube truths, New Humanist, May/June 2011
God, science and the quest for moral certainty, kenanmalik.com, 26 March 2011
Race, science and the politics if identity, Pandaemonium, 15 March 2011
Why both sides are wrong in the race debate, kenanmalik.com, 9 March 2011
Words and deeds. And the space between, Pandaemonium, 25 February 2011
No going back. The Arab revolts and the remaking of the political landscape, Pandaemonium, 21 February 2011
More thoughts on hate speech and the law, Pandaemonium, 15 February 2011
Hate speech and the law, Pandaemonium, 14 February 2011
The Muslim Brotherhood may gain power in Egypt by default, The Guardian/Comment is free, 31 January 2011
Multiculturalism at its limits? by Kenan Malik and Fero Sebej, Eurozine, 18 January 2011
Just because they hunt witches doesn't mean we have to worship heroes, kenanmalik.com, 18 December 2010
The making of a moral nihilist by Kenan Malik, kenanmalik.com, 16 December 2010
Science, morality and the euthyphro dilemma, kenanmalik.com, 3-4 December 2010
We used to want to change society. now we just want to coerce the poor, kenanmalik.com, 24 November 2010
A faithful search for identity, kenanmalik.com, 6 November 2010
A Merkel attack on multiculturalism, kenanmalik.com, 27 October 2010
Picking up from where Labour left off, kenanmalik.com, 25 October 2010
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science, By Jim Al-Khalili, The Independent, 22 October 2010
The Swedish challenge, kenanmalik.com, 22 September 2010
Tony Blair, A Journey, kenanmalik.com, 13 September 2010
The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism, By Tariq Ramadan, The Independent, 13 August 2010
Death of the university? kenanmalik.com, 27 May 2010
What realignment of politics means, The Guardian/Comment is free, 1 May 2010
Multiculturalism undermines diversity, The Guardian/Comment is free, 17 March 2010
The Black Album: A work in progress, The Independent, 21 July 2009
Shadow boxing, New Humanist, May/June 2009
After the fatwa, the free speech wars, spiked, 24 April 2009
From Fatwa to Jihad, Harry's place, 23 April 2009
Pickled Exclusive: an extract from Fatwa to Jihad, 21 April 2009
From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and Its Legacy by Kenan Malik by Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times, 5 April 2009
Kureishi on the Rushdie Affair, Prospect Magazine, April 2009
Race obsession harms those it is meant to help, The Sunday Times, 29 March 2009
A marketplace of outrage, New Statesman, 12 March 2009
Wilders shore of free speech endangered, The Australian, 16 February 2009
Exploding the fatwa myths, The Guardian/Comment is free, 12 February 2009
Salman Rushdie: The book-burning that changed Britain for ever, The Sunday Times, 1 February 2009
Twenty years on: internalising the fatwa, spiked , 21 November 2008
Walking on eggshells, The Guardian/Comment is free, 1 October 2008
Self-censor and be damned!, The Times, 29 September 2008
How the West was lost for free speech, The Australian, 26 September 2008
Out of bonds, Index on Censorship, Autumn 2008
The race debate: nothing to do with race, The Times, 2 July 2008
Inject some intelligence into the race debate, The First Post, 2 July 2008
Review: Strange Fruit: Why both sides are wrong in the race debate by Kenan Malik by Ian Hacking, New Scientist, 18 June 2008
What goes on inside your head, The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 2008
Islamophobia and Islamophilia, Weltwoche, 28 February 2008
The Archbishop and the Sharia, Bergens tidende, 14 February 2008
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