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Nafeez Ahmed (uk)

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is an award-winning 15-year investigative journalist, noted international security scholar, bestselling author, and film-maker. He tracks the 'war on terror' in the context of what he calls the 'Crisis of Civilisation.'

He is International Editor at The Canary, 'System Shift' columnist at VICE's science magazine Motherboard, weekly columnist at Middle East Eye, and the creator of INSURGEintelligence, a crowdfunded public interest investigative journalism project. Previously, Nafeez wrote The Guardian's 'Earth insight' blog between April 2013 and July 2014.

His work has been published in The Guardian, VICE, Independent on Sunday, The Independent, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, The New Statesman, Prospect, Le Monde diplomatique, Raw Story, New Internationalist, Huffington Post UK, Al-Arabiya English, AlterNet, The Ecologist, and Asia Times, among other places.