Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political, International and Policy Studies at the University of Surrey. His main areas of interest are the history of ideas; the history and philosophy of science; philosophy of the mind; theories of human nature; bioethics; political philosophy; and the politics of race, religion and identity.

He is the author of the highly acclaimed From Fatwa to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy, published earlier this year. Other books include Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate (2008), which was longlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Book Prize, Man, Beast and Zombie (2000) and The Meaning of Race (1996).

Kenan is a presenter of Analysis on BBC Radio 4, a panelist on Radio 4’s Moral Maze, and has written and presented a number of radio and TV documentaries, including Disunited Kingdom, Are Muslims Hated? (which was shortlisted for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression award), Let ‘em all in and Britain’s Tribal Tensions.

He writes a column for the Norwegian newspaper Bergens Tidende and has written for a wide range of other publications including The Times, Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph, Handelsblatt, Aftenposten, The Australian, New Statesman, Prospect, TLS, THES, Nature and The Philosophers’ Magazine

An archive of his work can be found at www.kenanmalik.com.