Articles
Posted on Fri 18 September 2009
Catholic Herald: The battle between a hard and humane kind of Islam
Akbar Ahmed is a man of many parts. I have known him as a senior civil servant, an academic, a diplomat and a prolific author. To these must now be added being a playwright who has written for the demanding world of the stage in Washington DC. In this doublet of plays he explores some of the perennial questions, which are, therefore, also contemporary, facing the Islamic world.