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Azad Essa

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Johannesburg
As seen in: Middle East Eye, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, Substack, Flipboard, City Press, Foreign Policy Magazine, News24, Al Jazeera Arabic, ReliefWeb and
Covers:  Islamophobia; US foreign policy; Hindu nationalism; India-Israel relations;
Journalist @MiddleEastEye; Author of Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India & Israel (Pluto Books); X account blocked by Government of India.
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Azad Essa’s Biography

I am a South African journalist based between Johannesburg and New York. I have reported for Al Jazeera English from across the African continent, as well as South Asia, covering politics, development and poverty. I am the author of Zuma’s Bastard (Two Dogs Books) and The Moslems are Coming (Harper Collins India) and an e-single No country for the poor (Harper Collins India).

I have also written for The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Guardian, Middle East Eye, among others.

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