Ehsan Masood

Ehsan Masood

Ehsan Masood is a writer and journalist based in London, writing mainly about science, international development and the politics of the Muslim world. He writes a fortnightly column for the online magazine Opendemocracy.net and is a consultant to the Science and Development Network.

He also writes for "Prospect magazine" and the journal "Nature". He was formerly Director of Communications for LEAD International and before that Opinion Editor of "New Scientist" magazine. He graduated in physics from Portsmouth Polytechnic and holds a postgraduate diploma in science communication from Birkbeck, University of London.

Selected Publications

* "Dry: Life Without Water", Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press 2006 ISBN 0-674-02224-6 (editor with Daniel Schaffer)
* "How Do You Know? Reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, Science and Cultural Relations", London: Pluto Press 2006 ISBN 074-53-2514-9 (editor)
* [http://www.counterpoint-online.org/"British Muslims: Media Guide"] (British Council/Association of Muslim Social Scientists, 2006)
* " [http://www.panos.org.uk/resources/reportdownload.asp?type=report&id=1072 The GM Debate: Who Decides? Analysing Decision-making on Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries"] , London: Panos 2005

In the Media

* [http://wanabehuman.blogspot.com/2007/01/comment-islams-reformers.html Islam's reformers] , Prospect article by Ehsan Masood republished on Wanabehuman.
* [http://www.opendemocracy.net/columns/science_development_faith.jsp Science, Development, Faith] Ehsan's Open Democracy columns
* [http://www.nature.com/news/specials/islamandscience/index.html Islam and Science] Special issue of "Nature", November 2006
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/starttheweek_20060529.shtml Ehsan Masood talks about "Dry: Life Without Water"] on "Start the Week" on BBC Radio 4, 29 May 2006
* [http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&section_id=860&template_id=947&lang=e Televised discussion on climate security at Carleton University, Canada] with John Ashton, Simon Dalby and hosted by Ken Rockburn of CPAC's "Talk Politics" show, February 2007

External links

* [http://www.gatewaytrust.org/ The Gateway Trust] , UK charity that helps writers of non-fiction from Arabic-speaking and other developing countries publish their work in English.
* [http://www.lead.org LEAD International] , non-profit sustainable development training and networking organization


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