Read my Mail on Sunday interview with Liberian ex warlord General Butt Naked. A brutally honest confession of his past cannibalism, child sacrifice, use of child soldiers and the mass murder of thousands. A terrifying and remarkable story from a man who now lives as an evangelical preacher.
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The search for medicine’s holy grail: exclusive report on world first in stem cell human trial
August 31, 2010 – 3:18 am
Read my Mail on Sunday special report on a world first in stem cell therapy: a UK-based human stem cell trial for curing strokes. Is this the beginning of the end of the search for medicine’s holy grail or a catastrophe in the making?
Read my special report on “The Eton of Islam”
August 31, 2010 – 3:03 am
Inside the Eton of Islam. Read my exclusive report for the Mail on Sunday on Britain’s Deobandi madrassas whose ideology first inspired the Taliban.
Indian Summer Literary Festival on terror threat
August 31, 2010 – 2:39 am
July 31 2010: Indian Summer Literary Fest discusses terror threat in Afghanistan. I joined a discussion that included historian Charles Allen, Sir General Michael Rose and Lord Meghnad Desai. See blog or events for more.
Inside Britain’s sharia courts
July 7, 2009 – 2:48 am
Edna Fernandes reports for the Mail on Sunday Review in a cover story on Britain’s sharia courts. See blog for news link.
The Last Jews of Kerala shortlisted for Vodafone Crossword literary prize
July 7, 2009 – 2:23 am
The Last Jews of Kerala is shortlisted for India’s prestigious Vodafone Crossword literary prize. See blog for news link.
Talk at Global Forum for Freedom of Expression, Norway
June 18, 2009 – 2:47 am
I just got back from the Global Forum for Freedom of Expression in Oslo which discussed: The Right to Offend. An issue that has ramifications ranging from the Muslim world’s call for recognition of “Defamation of Religion” to the rise of the far-right and neo-Nazis in Europe. See blog.
Exclusive report on Sri Lanka’s war on terror in Mail on Sunday
May 5, 2009 – 3:10 am
Inside Sri Lanka’s so-called “concentration camps” and the story of a child suicide bomber. See Blog for link.
Deobandi Islam in India in History Today
April 7, 2009 – 2:23 am
Edna Fernandes writes in History Today on the origins of Deobandi Islam in India. Connect to the article on the blog page.
March 1 2009: Jewish Book Week
March 3, 2009 – 3:13 am
Edna Fernandes discussed her book The Last Jews of Kerala at Jewish Book Week 2009 in London.
