Our Authors
Ziauddin Sardar
Ziauddin Sardar is an award-winning writer, futurist and cultural critic. He is the author of over fifty books, including Reading the Qur’an, Mecca: The Sacred City, and his best-selling autobiographies, Desperately Seeking Paradise and Balti Britain. Sardar has worked as a science journalist for Nature and New Scientist, as a reporter from London Weekend Television and Channel 4 and radio programmes for the BBC. He is also a former columnist on the New Statesman and is an internationally renowned public intellectual.
Merryl Wyn Davies
The late Merryl Wyn Davies was a writer, BBC producer and anthropologist. She is the author of many books, including the classic study, Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic AnthropologyI, and co-author of the international bestseller, Why Do People Hate America. Davies co-authored books and articles with Ziauddin Sardar and was director of the Muslim Institute, London.
Iain Maitland
Iain Maitland is the author of two mental health memoirs, Dear Michael, Love Dad (Hodder) and Out of the Madhouse (JKP) and the best-selling psych thriller, The Perfect Husband (Inkubator Books). He is an Ambassador for the teenage mental health charity, Stem4, and speaks regularly at literary and mental health events.
Muzahid Kahn
Muzahid has been at the heart of local and global initiatives that have made real differences to peoples’ lives. He serves as a volunteer governance advisor for multiple organisations, including the Amana Foundation and he holds a position as a board member of Maggie’s Cancer Centre. Muzahid is a certified NLP coach, and his efforts have been recognised by Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for being a young achiever in 1998, and his work was also commended by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2000. During 2013, he became one of almost 50,000 changemakers certified by the US Climate Reality Leadership Corps. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Greater Manchester in June 2021.
Paul Sutherland
Paul Sutherland is a Canadian-British poet and the founder of Dream Catcher, an international literary journal. His own writing has appeared in countless anthologies, newspapers and periodicals. Sutherland has an MA in English Literature from the University of York and became a Sufi Muslim and freelance writer in 2004. He lives with his wife in Lincolnshire.
Samantha Terrell
Samantha Terrell is an internationally-published American poet whose anthology Dismantling Mountains plays with free verse, experimental, and rhymed and un-rhymed poetry. Terrell’s poetry, which emphasises self-awareness as a means to social awareness, has been shortlisted for the Anita McAndrews Poets for Human Rights Award organised by Poets Without Borders.