Tufail Ahmad is Director of South Asia Studies Project at the Middle East Media
Research Institute (www.memri.org/sasp), Washington DC. His areas of interests include
Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, jihadist movements, multiculturalism and Islamic
reformation. His articles have been published in several languages, including Arabic,
Urdu, Hindi, Dari, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, French, German and Chinese. Tufail has
worked in New Delhi, London and Washington DC.
Prior to joining MEMRI, he was based at the BBC World Service in London where he was
responsible for the coverage of Pakistan for eight years after 9/11. In New Delhi, he
worked for C-voter, Press Trust of India and www.inomy.com, where he edited a book on
The Internet Economy of India. Tufail is a British journalist of Indian origin, and was born
to peasants in the plain fields of West Champaran, where Mahatma Gandhi started his
Satyagraha movement against the British rule in India.
Tufail obtained a BA Hons in Sociology from the Aligarh Muslim University, and read
Social Systems for an MA at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University and later for a
second MA in War Studies at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. He
also holds a PG Diploma in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication,
New Delhi. He is philosophically concerned over how Liberal-Left intellectuals are aligning
with Islamists, in their zeal to oppose America and Israel at the cost of Western values. He
reads books and has no hobbies.
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