Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is a British investigative journalist, author and academic.
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Nafeez Ahmed is editor of the crowdfunded investigative journalism platform INSURGE intelligence.
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Nafeez Ahmed is a former environment blogger for The Guardian from March 2013 to July 2014.
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From 2014 to 2017, Ahmed was a weekly columnist for Middle East Eye, the London-based news portal founded by ex-Guardian writer David Hearst.
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Nafeez Ahmed is 'System Shift' columnist at Vice covering issues around global systems crises and solutions.
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Nafeez Ahmed's work applies systems theory to explore the intersection of multiple global crises, including climate, energy, financial, political, military, and others.
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Nafeez Ahmed is an adviser at the investigative journalism outlet Declassified UK.
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Nafeez Ahmed is founding convenor and principal author at Perennial, an IPRD project focusing on progressive Islamic theology.
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Nafeez Ahmed has twice been featured in the Evening Standard list of the top 1,000 most influential Londoners.
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Nafeez Ahmed further opined in his column at the New Internationalist, that these failures and omissions can be explained by the extent to which Western military and intelligence agencies have used Islamist terrorist networks "both to control strategic energy resources and to counter their geopolitical rivals", a strategy which he says to be well known to have occurred during the Cold War to counter the Soviet Union, but continued in the post-Cold War period.