Ramadan: In Conversation with Babar Ahmad

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Broadcaster

Things Unseen

TX Date

21st Jun 2017

Presenter

Mark Dowd

Lead Producer

Saba Zaman

Producer

Paul Arnold

Awards

Sandford St Martin Awards 2018

Runner-Up – Interview of the Year

Having allowed his website to host articles supporting the Taliban, about which he now says he was naive, he was eventually transferred to solitary confinement in the US, before pleading guilty to ‘providing material support to terrorism’. He was released shortly afterwards and returned to the UK.

In conversation with Mark Dowd, Babar Ahmad talks about how he came to set up the website in question, and how he managed to mark Ramadan in the most difficult circumstances. Despite physical and mental challenges he looks back positively on the spiritual side of his incarceration.

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