Muhammad Idrees Ahmad
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| Alma mater | Strathclyde University |
| Interests | Syria, White Helmets |
Lecturer interested in the white helmets whom the UK Border Agency unsuccessfully tried to deport. | |
Dr 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,[1] a columnist at The New Arab[2] and the author of "The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War".[3]
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.[4]
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?