Imran Mulla

My book reviewed in the Wall Street Journal:

"An exceptional feat of investigative research... [Depicts] the historical moment when the modern overpowered the ancient—a world, now lost, of floridly costumed courtiers, fabled princes, exotic vices and perfumed palaces"

Exclusive: The UK government has banned a Palestinian-American clothes designer from entering the country to speak at a charity event for Palestine.

Mo Hamzeh designed a T-shirt saying "you western cucks bend the knee for" Israel.

He tells us he's launching a legal challenge:

US Democrat sources tell us they watched Britain's Israel sanctions and saw how popular they were.

Informal talks are now taking place between Democrats and Labour amidst expectations of a "strong relationship", we understand.

Peter Oborne @OborneTweets and I write for MEE:

More than a dozen MPs have written to the government urging action on a major travel event in London which starts today.

We revealed last week it's advertising an agency involved in the construction of Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem.

Full story below:

'Modern Muslims’, declared the late Shahab Ahmed, suffer the ‘existential problem of living in terms of a conceptual incoherence with their past.’

My new piece for @KasurianMag revisits Ahmed's magisterial and little-understood work, a grand odyssey from the Balkans to Bengal: