Producing articles with titles such as “Pakistan Must Not Be Abandoned” (Guardian, October 15, 2001); “Pakistan’s Silent Majority Is Not to Be Feared” (New York Times, March 27, 2007); and “Why Do They Hate Us?” (Washington Post, July 22, 2007), Hamid is a much sought contributor to contemporary debates, whose immersion in the cultures of both East and West—he was part educated and employed for many years in the United States and Britain—give him a perceived authority.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 452