Farish A Noor is a Malaysian political scientist and human rights activist. Currently based at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin; he has taught at the Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University of Malaya; the Institute for Islamic Studies, Freie University of Berlin; the Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), Leiden; and Sciences-Po, Paris. He has been a radio essayist for the BBC World Service and his columns have appeared in Malaysiakini.com, The New Straits Times, Sin Chew Jit Poh, Pakistan Daily Times, The Far Eastern Economic Review, Impact International, Ummahonline.com and Harakah. Among his writings are New Voices of Islam (ISIM, 2002) and Islam Embedded: The Historical Development of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS (MSRI, 2004) and The Other Malaysia (2002).