Kenan Malik is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster. He has presented Nightwaves on Radio 3, Analysis on Radio 4 and was, for his sins, a panelist on the Moral Maze. His books include Not So Black and White, a history of the idea of race, The Quest for a Moral Compass, a global history of ethics, and From Fatwa to Jihad, on the Rushdie affair and its legacy.
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