Ehsan Masood

Ehsan Masood is editor of @ResFortnight. His latest book, The Great Invention: The Story of GDP and the Making and Unmaking of the Modern World is published this week in the US by Pegasus.

The Great British higher education sell-off

If these proposals become law, then, over time, the fee-paying student will become the human equivalent of black gold.

By Ehsan Masood

/ 9 Jun 2016

What did Pakistan know?

If America wants Pakistan on side; if it wants to see a stable Pakistan that is not a haven for terrorists and that doesn’t export terrorism, then it needs to recognise that it (America) is the elephant in the room.

By Ehsan Masood

/ 5 May 2011

Tariq Ramadan's project

Tariq Ramadan's audiences are famously diverse. Those who hang on the Swiss Islamic reformer's every word include college-going Muslim men and women; policymakers and think-tankers in

By Ehsan Masood

/ 25 Jun 2009

The wages of punditry

Michael Edwards's passionately-argued call on openDemocracy for a revolution in development research is overdue, but also timely (see "A world made new through love and reason: what

By Ehsan Masood

/ 29 Apr 2007

Pakistan: The army as the state

Pakistan’s economy and institutions are deeply penetrated by the country’s army, a new book and documentary film reveal. Ehsan Masood reports for openDemocracy.

By Ehsan Masood

/ 12 Apr 2007

A German vision: greening globalisation

There are many obvious ways to measure the strengths and weaknesses of the European project, whose fiftieth anniversary was marked in the European Union's weekend gathering in Berlin

By Ehsan Masood

/ 27 Mar 2007

Muslims and multiculturalism: lessons from Canada

Canada is tuning into Europe's debate on Muslims. But it doesn't want to abandon its own model for living with diversity at least for now, reports

By Ehsan Masood

/ 7 Mar 2007

National Geographic: the world in Arabic

In February 2007, National Geographic magazine joined Newsweek, Scientific American, and other international magazine brands jostling for space in roadside kiosks and bookstalls across the Arab world. After 120 years

By Ehsan Masood

/ 22 Feb 2007

Africans and climate change

The timing? Well, it could have been better. The summit of heads of state from fifty-three African Union countries in Addis Ababa on 29-30 January 2007 was overshadowed by the

By Ehsan Masood

/ 7 Feb 2007

The world's thirst

Eight years from now, in 2015, the United States space agency Nasa will send a probe out to Jupiter's moons in search of evidence of life below their

By Ehsan Masood

/ 26 Jan 2007

Urdus last stand

The web may be helping to harmonise English usage around the world, but – especially across the association of former British colonies known as the Commonwealth - the survival of older

By Ehsan Masood

/ 9 Jan 2007

Pakistans education gamble

On 30 November 2006, Pakistan announced what must count as one of the more far-reaching educational reforms for a generation: from September 2007, English will replace Urdu as the language

By Ehsan Masood

/ 13 Dec 2006