The Moslems Are Coming: Encounters With A Desktop Terrorist

Azad Essa

Apr 2012 · Harper Collins

About this eBook

Azad Essa is a young South African going places. A journalist with a wicked sense of humour, his take on world politics is engaging and insightful. The Moslems Are Coming tracks a changing world, tackles race and religion head-on, gives fresh insight into the Israel-Palestine conflict, casts new light on old stereotypes, vents the frustrations and fears of the next generation - and ultimately offers us hope for the future. 'Azad Essa, a Bollywood-soaked, Indian-battered, black South African-tinged, accidental academic and incidental journalist ... leaves no holy cows untaunted - nay, he even imagines them as beefburgers. The taunting is fast and furious and is bound to irritate many men and a few women in power' - Ari Sitas, author of Voices That Reason 'Azad writes with great verve and wit, but behind all the humour and lightness of touch is a deeply affecting and persuasive critique of the world we inhabit' - Mirza Waheed, author of The Collaborator 'The book is not only seamlessly written, it is also chutzpadik, refreshing and - at its core - deeply humanistic' - Jewish Report 'The man is abrasive, engaged, uncowed' - Kevin Bloom, author of Ways of Staying 'Irreverence and wicked humour ricochet at high speed through this collection, like a game of squash played with a golf ball'- Sanjay Kak, Film-maker

About the author

Azad Essa is a journalist with the Al Jazeera Network. He completed a multinational MA programme in sociology in 2005, studying in Germany, India and South Africa, and spent several years in academia before launching his journalism career. He has reported on the scars of the conflict in Kashmir, human displacement in the drought-ravaged Horn of Africa, and on the peculiarities of life in post Apartheid SA. He calls Durban home. This is his first book.