Irfan Yusuf

@OnceWereRadical

About

Irfan Yusuf is a lawyer and commentator who writes on national security, cultural diversity and conservative politics. He has been published in Crikey, The Canberra Times, The Drum, and the Australian among others. He has appeared on The Project and RN’s God Forbid!

Irfan won the 2007 Iremonger Award for Writing on Public Issues and is the author of Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-fascist.

He is currently a PhD scholar at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation where he is researching national security and transnational identities of young Australians.

Past Events

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Texts in the City

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Irfan Yusuf

25 Jun

Coming of Age: Growing up Muslim in Australia

Irfan Yusuf, Demet Divaroren, Tasneem Chopra, Alyena Mohummadally, Amra Pajalic

24 Feb

Question Time

Radicalisation

Madeleine Morris, Irfan Yusuf, John Safran, Joumanah El Matrah

5 Jul

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