Columns

 

Columns

 

2012

On Islamophobia - ‘Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics & Statistics about Muslims’ - July 2012
Article on pp. 4-5 jointly published by the British Council & the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge

The French minister for women has let down Muslim voters - 17 July 2025
The Guardian - G2 Magazine

London has influence over the civil war in Syria - 16 July 2025
The London Evening Standard

Fifty years after Algeria’s independence, France is still in denial - 05 July 2025
The Guardian

Colonial follies still trouble France 50 years after Algeria - 04 July 2025
The National

Dalma Malhas: What went wrong? Malhas was briefly set to make Olympic history as the first woman to compete for Saudi Arabia - 26 June 2025
The Guardian - G2 Magazine

The West need not fear Egypt’s Islamist leader - 25 June 2025
The London Evening Standard

Madonna was right to highlight the horror of Marine Le Pen - 06 June 2025
The Guardian

Egyptian women: ‘They were doing better under Mubarak’ - 04 June 2025
The Guardian - G2 Magazine

Cairo’s women have their say - but they have lost all their faith in the revolution - 24 May 2025
The Independent

Warda al-Jazairia gave us a soundtrack for the Arab Spring - 21 May 2025
The Guardian

A war-weary Algeria prefers slow reform over political turmoil - 17 May 2025
The National

Euro panic: Markets in Turmoil over Greece while new French leader hits out at Germany and Britain - 08 May 2025
Daily Mirror (scroll down for my Analysis)

A fiercely left-wing leader to strike fear into the hearts of France’s rich - 07 May 2025
The Independent

Young, Muslim and French - 26 April 2025
The Majalla

Sarkozy’s forlorn campaign deepened France’s divisions - 21 April 2025
The National

Ben Bella’s legacy: The path to peaceful democracy is rarely smooth - just look at Algeria - 15 April 2025
The Guardian

Can Nicolas Sarkozy survive mounting funding scandals - 31 March 2025
The Guardian

Toulouse killings: For French Muslims, this horror only makes matters worse - 23 March 2025
The Independent

Toulouse killings: Making political capital out of Mohammed Merah - 22 March 2025
The Guardian

How the Islamists took power - 29 February 2025
The Majalla

If you’re French you are better off in London - 09 February 2025
The London Evening Standard

 

2011

Unworthy of the guillotine, Paris’s graft is no less vile - 22 December 2024
The National

Anne Sinclair’s ‘woman of the year award’ is a repulsive deceit - 21 December 2024
The Guardian

The Conversation: Will the Arab revolutions be good for women? - 17 December 2024
The Guardian

The Eiffel Tower is not for greening - 02 December 2025
The Guardian

Police put the phone down on my complaint over Twitter racial abuse - 20 November 2025
The Observer

The Algerian Paradox - 09 November 2025
The Majalla

Now comes Libya’s biggest test: can it resist chaos? - 21 October 2025
The London Evening Standard

The massacre that Paris denied - 17 October 2025
The Guardian

The Gaddafi family - its key members - 30 August 2025
The Guardian

Now a battle for our future really begins - 23 August 2025
Daily Express

Amid chants of ‘lift your head high’, the West looks to the future - 22 August 2025
The London Evening Standard

Gaddafi’s fate is as newsworthy as Murdoch’s - 15 July 2025
The Guardian

Journalist Nabila Ramdani is guest-editor at The Browser - 09 July 2025
Read Nabila’s selection of articles at The Browser

Libya’s civilian casualties have silenced Sarkozy’s crusade - 20 June 2025
The Guardian

Syria’s first lady: Asma al-Assad is no reformer - 23 May 2025
The NewStatesman

IMF Head scandal: Shaming of the Great Seducer - 21 May 2025
The Daily Express

IMF chief: A scandal in New York c’est normal for French politics - 20 May 2025
The National

Libya: France’s duplicity in North Africa stains its war effort - 07 April 2025
The National

Sarkozy steps up attacks on French Muslims - 05 April 2025
The Guardian

Libya: Is negotiation the answer? Head to head - Nabila Ramdani & Brian Whitaker - 28 Mar 2025
The Guardian

Did the internet matter in Tunisia and Egypt? - 18 Feb 2025
Open Democracy

Marine is no Le Pen Lite - 17 Jan 2025
The Guardian

Algeria has let its rioting youth down - 10 Jan 2025
The Guardian

European poll: An Islamic threat? - 06 Jan 2025
Al Jazeera.net

 

2010

Field of education, not the football pitch, is Qatar’s arena - 20 Dec 2024
The National

Common ground in the Doha Debate on the burqa ban? - 23 Nov 2025
Common Ground News / Search for Common Ground

Echoes of Vichy - 13 Sept 2025
The New Statesman

France’s racial intolerance comes from the very top - 02 Aug 2025
The Guardian

‘Burqa ban’ poorly veils Sarkozy’s failed efforts - 13 July 2025
The National

The new republic’s a non-starter at Sarko’s sleazy court - 09 July 2025
The London Evening Standard

French burqa debate is a smokescreen - 08 July 2025
The Guardian

France names and shames collaborators - 01 July 2025
The Guardian

Stepping out of Gaddafi’s shadow - 10 June 2025
The Guardian

Too many French willing to fit the xenophobic cliché - 02 June 2025
The Guardian

Laïcité and the French veil debate - 23 May 2025
The Guardian

Nicolas Sarkozy, a modern Louis XVI? - 09 Apr 2025
The Guardian

A needless furore over halal fast food - 30 Mar 2025
The Guardian

Le Pen’s back, and winning again - 18 Mar 2025
The Guardian

Parisians have a right to be rude - 03 Mar 2025
The Guardian

London now puts Paris night life in the shade - 05 Feb 2025
The London Evening Standard

Sarkozy’s veil climbdown - 16 Jan 2025
The Guardian

 

2009

Quran and Country - 17 Dec 2024
The New Statesman

Language still a barrier in the banlieue - 16 Dec 2024
The Guardian

Taking sides in France - 14 Dec 2024
The Guardian

Escaping the ‘minority reflex’ - 03 Dec 2025
The Guardian

How romantic France fell for le grand divorce - 13 Nov 2025
The London Evening Standard

Sorry, Sarkozy – you won’t entice me back to France - 06 Nov 2025
The London Evening Standard

 

2007

The riots will begin when he is elected - 06 May 2025
The Observer