Sadakat Kadri
{{Short description|Lawyer, author, travel writer and journalist}}
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Sadakat Kadri (born 1964 in London) is a lawyer, author, travel writer and journalist. One of his foremost roles as a barrister was to assist in the prosecution of former Malawian president Hastings Banda. As a member of the New York Bar he has worked as a volunteer with the American Civil Liberties Union. He has also specialised in freedom of information issues.[https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/sadakat-kadri Sadakat Kadri], profile at Doughty Street Chambers
He currently lives in London and writes law-based articles for the British current affairs magazine New Statesman,[http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/sadakat_kadri New Statesman – Sadakat Kadri] and the London Review of Books.
Early life and education
Born in London in 1964 of Pakistani and Finnish parents,{{cite news|last1=GARNER|first1=DWIGHT|title=Defending Muslim Law From Those Invoking It|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/books/heaven-on-earth-by-sadakat-kadri.html?_r=0|accessdate=4 October 2015|agency=New York Times|date=16 April 2012}} Kadri studied history and law at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a first, and has a master's degree from Harvard Law School.{{cite web|title=About Sadakat Kadri|url=http://www.thetrial.net/author.htm|website=thetrial.net|accessdate=4 October 2015}}
Career
Kadri's parallel travel writing career started with a visit to Prague during the 1989 Velvet Revolution, as one of only a handful of 'non-journalists' who actually observed the reality of the changes without being hamstrung by press conferences and filing deadlines. He stayed on in Prague for two years to pen the groundbreaking Cadogan Guide to that city.[https://www.amazon.com/Prague-Sadakat-Kadri/dp/1860110150 Amazon reviews of Kadri's Cadogan Guide] His 2005 book, The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson was written after two and a half years spent in Manhattan, having arrived shortly before September 11, 2001. He was inspired to write his 2012 work Heaven on Earth, by the September 11, 2001 and July 7, 2005 bombings. Critics have called that book "extremely valuable" and "entertaining",{{cite news|last1=Lezard|first1=Nicholas|title=Heaven on Earth: a Journey Through Shari'ah Law by Sadakat Kadri|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/16/journey-through-shariah-law-review|accessdate=4 October 2015|work=The Guardian|date=16 January 2013}} "carefully researched",{{cite news|last1=BAZZI|first1=MOHAMAD|title=Crime and Punishment [Review]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/12/books/review/heaven-on-earth-by-sadakat-kadri.html?_r=0|accessdate=4 October 2015|agency=New York Times|date=10 August 2012}} and "thorough and admirable".
Selected works
- 1991: Prague, Cadogan city guides, {{ISBN|978-1-86011-214-0}}
- 2005: The Trial: A History, from Socrates to O. J. Simpson, {{ISBN|978-0-375-50550-8}}
- 2012: Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Shari'a Law from the Deserts of Ancient Arabia to the Streets of the Modern Muslim World, {{ISBN|978-0-374-16872-8}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.thetrial.net/author.htm Author's website for The Trial]
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Category:English travel writers
Category:English people of Finnish descent
Category:English people of Pakistani descent