Nabil al-Haidari
Nabil al-Haidari was born in Baghdad in 1961; studied Arabic literature & religious studies at Baghdad University, proceeding to post-graduate studies at Birkbeck College, London University. He has taught Theology & Arabic at a variety of institutions, participated in interfaith dialogue, and is a writer, researcher and lecturer on issues relating to human rights, women's rights, democracy and civil rights as well as: Islam & Modernity; Quranic Hermeneutics; the contest of takfir and tafkir; the Quranic text and interpretations of commentators; Orientalism and Islam; the authenticity of Traditions; sects and religions in Iraq; the History of Iraqi Jews; Islam, Christianity and Judaism: similarities, interactions and comparisons; the culture of fabricated tradition, and the collation and birth of the Quranic text. He has lectured on these topics at conferences in more than 40 countries; and seeks to establish peace, and harmony between different faiths through a process of dialogue and discussion.
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Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.
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