Once Were Radicals: My Years As A Teenage Islamo-fascist: ABC

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009

MEDIA: "Once Were Radicals" on Radio National's Life Matters ...

No, not that ABC!

The author of Once Were Radicals: My years as a teenage Islamo-fascist featured on the Radio National Life Matters show on Thursday 30 April 2009.

You can listen to the interview by clicking here.

You can also download the interview by clicking here.

Though apparently you won't be able to do this for long. And we're still trying to figure out how to upload the recording that we ourselves have downloaded!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

EVENT: Canberra Launch - Sunday 31 May 2009

Come along to the launch of ...

3pm

Sunday 31 May 2009

Paperchain Bookstore

34 Franklin Street

Manuka

(see here for directions)

The book will be launched by

Virginia Haussegger, ABC News Presenter, award-winning journalist, Canberra Times columnist and author.

To RSVP for this event, please e-mail oncewereradicals@gmail.com.

About the author ...

Irfan Yusuf is a Sydney-based lawyer, commentator, blogger and author.

He was educated in Sydney, apart from brief stints in Karachi and Princeton. He completed his legal studies at Macquarie University and the University of Technology, both in Sydney. He has practised law since 1994, his main area now being employment and workplace relations.

Irfan has written profiles, op-eds and reviews in over 15 major newspapers in Australia and New Zealand including the Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Age, Canberra Times, Brunei Times and New Zealand Herald. He also writes regularly for popular online portals including Crikey, NewMatilda, OnlineOpinion and ABC Unleashed. Irfan’s work has also appeared in Eureka Street, Malaysiakini and the Webdiary. He has also blogged for the Daily Telegraph.

Irfan is a regular columnist for the Crescent Times newspaper published in Perth. He is also a columnist and associate editor of AltMuslim.com.

Irfan has been interviewed on TV and radio in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia and France on a variety of matters relating to the Australian politics, Muslim communities, cricket and the law.

Irfan is a Research Associate at the Australian Homeland Security Research Centre in Canberra. Since 2005, he has been a White Ribbon Day Ambassador campaigning to eliminate all forms of violence against women.