How the War on Terror Came Home

In Conversation with:
Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims are Coming!,
and Sohail Daulatzai, author of Black Star, Crescent Moon

Sohail Daulatzai is the author of Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America and co-editor of Born to Use Mics, a literary remix of Nas’ album Illmatic. His writing has appeared in The Nation, Counterpunch, Al Jazeera, and Souls, amongst others. He has written liner notes for the 2012 release of the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set of Rage Against the Machine’s self titled debut album and he is currently working on a graphic novel of Sam Greenlee’s The Spook Who Sat by the Door, as well as a book on the 50th anniversary of The Battle of Algiers. He is also the creator of Groundings, a conversation series that has included Immortal Technique, dream hampton, Robin D.G. Kelley and Jasiri X. He teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at UC Irvine.

Arun Kundnani writes about race, Islamophobia, political violence, and surveillance. His book The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror is published by Verso Books in March 2014. Born and bred in London, he moved to New York in 2010 on a fellowship with the Open Society Foundations and now lives in Harlem. He is the author of The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain, which was selected as a New Statesman book of the year in 2007. A former editor of the journal Race & Class, he was educated at Cambridge University, holds a PhD from London Metropolitan University, and teaches at New York University.