website home_town nationality birth_date residence article_title name occupation
-lsb- http://nafeezahmed.com nafeezahmed.com -rsb- london british 1978 -lrb- age 35 -- 36 -rrb- united kingdom nafeez mosaddeq ahmed
 nafeez mosaddeq ahmed author , journalist , scholar
nafeez mosaddeq ahmed

nafeez mosaddeq ahmed -lrb- born 1978 -rrb- is a british author , investigative journalist , and international security scholar .
he is executive director of the institute for policy research and development -lrb- iprd -rrb- , an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict in the context of global ecological , energy and economic crises ; and a film-maker who has co-produced and written the crisis of civilization , and associate produced grasp the nettle , both directed by dean puckett .
ahmed 's academic work has focused on the systemic causes of mass violence .
he has taught at the department of international relations , university of sussex , and has lectured at brunel university 's politics & history unit at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels , for courses in international relations theory , contemporary history , empire and globalization .
he is a former environment blogger for `` the guardian '' , writing regularly for the website from march 2013 to july 2014 .
ahmed now contributes a weekly column to middle east eye , the london-based news portal founded by an ex - `` guardian '' leader writer david hearst , and is ` system shift ' columnist at vice 's motherboard .
ahmed is founding editor of insurge intelligence , a crowdfunded investigative journalism project .
