Yunas Samad

Yunas Samad is Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Bradford. His main areas of interest are: South Asia and the Diaspora; Transnational Identity Politics Diaspora, Race, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism; Religion and Nationalism; Ethnicity and Nationalism.

He is author of numerous reports and books including Muslims and Community Cohesion in Bradford - Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report (York, 2010), Pakistan-US Conundrum: Jihadis, Military and the People – the struggle for control (Hurst & Co, 2011), and co-editor with Kasturi Sen of Islam in the European Union: Transnationalism, Youth and the War on Terror (OUP 2007).

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Monday 5 October 2015, 18.45 Millennium Room, Carriageworks Theatre, The Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD

In conversation: Israel

"Although 'battle' suggests destruction, these were some of the most constructive debates I've taken part in. This was civilised conflict in the best sense of both words."
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