In Search for the Lost Orient is a book length interview in which Roy recounts his life and adventures, explains his ideas, and critiques essentialised notions of Islam.

which predicted the end of history, can no longer be used to navigate the complexity and contradictions, that unfold in real time.

Has the Covid-19 pandemic radically altered your view of employment? Did the rapid shift from in-office to virtual work lead you to re-assess your life and future?

On a summer’s day last year, I entered the park and saw a group of young Muslim men, in their early to late twenties. One of them was listening to hip hop music on loud-speaker, while his friends were pre-occupied, watching something on a phone. What they were watching clearly excited them.