Jason Burke is a senior foreign correspondent of The Guardian and The Observer newspapers. He has focused on the Middle East and South Asia as well as terrorism. Based in Pakistan from 1998 to 2002, he reported from Afghanistan under the Taliban and during the war 2001. He also covered the war in Iraq and its aftermath and has been working in Israel-Palestine since 1999. Burke is the author of “The New Threat from Islamic Militancy”, which was shortlisted for the UK’s Orwell Prize. Other books include “Al-Qaeda: the true story of radical Islam” (2003), “On The Road To Kandahar” (2006) and “The 9/11 Wars” (2011). Burke has also contributed to the Oxford University History of Political Islam, a variety of academic journals and has spoken on Islamic militancy at Scotland Yard, the think tank The Royal United Services Institute, the MI6 as well as the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and elsewhere. He is a regular commentator on television and radio.

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