Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
Alma mater	Strathclyde University
Interests	• Syria • White Helmets

Muhammad Idrees Ahmad is a Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the University of Stirling in Scotland and a co-editor of PULSE. He is a contributing editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, a columnist at The New Arab and the author of "The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War".

Deportation threat

In January 2012, Dr Ahmad won his appeal against a UK Border Agency bid to deport him after his bank balance slipped below £800. He was finally granted his “post-study work visa” after a judge in Glasgow found against the Home Office decision. His supporters have described it as a victory for common sense. Dr Ahmad, who came to Scotland in 2004 and studied at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, gaining a PhD in sociology, was offered a job at an English university on a salary of around £35,000 a year, just days before learning he would be deported.

Writing about Syria

• Syria in 2018 is not Iraq in 2003
• Syria and the case for editorial accountability
• Why Macron is wrong about Assad
• Is It Time for the US to Pull Out of Iraq and Syria?

 

A Document by Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Outrage over killing of journalists is essential	Article	11 November 2018	Anna Politkovskaya Jamal Khashoggi Marie Colvin	Above all we need to protect the laws and institutions which would have protected Anna Politkovskaya, Marie Colvin and Jamal Khashoggi had they been universal. We need to treat a threat to journalists anywhere as a threat to journalists everywhere.

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