Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Olivier Roy is presently Professor at the European University Institute (Florence): he is the scientific adviser of the Middle East Directions programme at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and headed the ReligioWest research project . Prof. Roy has been a Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (since 1985), professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales(since 2003), and visiting professor at Berkeley University (2008/2009). He is the author of, among other books, “The failure of political Islam” (Harvard University Press, 1994), “Globalized Islam” (Columbia University Press, 2004), “Holy Ignorance” (Hurst/ Oxford University Press, 2010), “Jihad and Death”, (Hurst/OUP 2017), “In search of the Lost Orient”, (Columbia UP, 2017) and “Is Europe Christian?” (Hurst/ OUP, 2019).
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