an investigative journalist and international security scholar. He has written for The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Scotsman, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Quartz, Prospect, New Statesman, Le Monde diplomatique and New Internationalist.
Ahmed is also editor of editor of the crowdfunded investigative journalism project INSURGE intelligence and a weekly columnist for Middle East Eye.
In an article first published shortly after the 13 November Paris terrorist attacks, investigative journalist Nafeez Ahmed addresses the twisted logic of extremist ideologies; and how to break the continuum of violence that such ideologies seek to perpetuate.