Usman Butt is multimedia television researcher, filmmaker and writer based in London. Usman read International Relations and Arabic Language at the University of Westminster and completed a Master of Arts in Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter.
Book Club: Stacy D. Fahrenthold’s new book offers insight into the politics of migrant communities and their connections to their countries of origin, reviews Usman Butt.
Book Club: Haian Dukhan's book, State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns, provide a useful introduction into thinking about how to discuss tribal politics.
Book Club: Juan Cole, a professor of history at the University of Michigan, sets out to explore the historical background of Islam in his new book, reviewed by Usman Butt.
Book Club: Edward Said revolutionised they we way think about representations of the Middle East, but he had little background in the study of history, notes Usman Butt.
Book review: Doostdar explores Iran's new spiritual environment, and the widely held assumptions about rationality, and the relationship between science and religion, writes Usman Butt.
Book review: Irwin revisits the Arab world's most famous thinker, and tries to dismantle the idea of him as a modern man living in premodern times, writes Usman Butt.
