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Aziz Huq

Aziz Huq directs the Liberty & National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU. He is  also the co-author of Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror.

Recent Articles

First, Do Harm

Aziz HuqAug 11, 2006

Dr. Steven H. Miles is the author of Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Terror (Random House 2006). Miles, an expert in medical ethics, human rights, and international health care, is professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a faculty member of its Center for Bioethics. His book explores the role of military physicians in aiding and abetting abuse and torture at U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantamano.

Why focus on the role of doctors in torture and abuse?

The Real Osama

Aziz HuqJan 19, 2006

In March 1997, Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, traveled to Afghanistan for CNN in order to interview Osama bin Laden and became one of only a handful of Western journalists to have met and spoken to the leader of al-Qaeda. Here, he talks about his new book, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader.

Why write a biography of bin Laden?

Beyond Kafka

Aziz HuqNov 09, 2005

Your book spans a range from the myth of Orestes to the trials of Bernhard Goetz and O.J. Simpson. What changes did you observe during that long period?

The Other Side Of The Crackdown

Aziz HuqSep 30, 2005

On September 15, 2001, author Ian McEwan wrote for the Guardian a moving elegy to lives lost in the September 11 attacks by evoking the “snatched and anguished assertions of love” in final phone calls made from the hijacked planes and the World Trade Center.

Nearly four years later, McEwan's mood had changed. Writing in The New York Times on July 8, 2005, he suggested a possible “trade” of liberty for security as London reeled from a series of bombings, some of which struck close to his south-of-the-Thames home. Like many others, McEwan had changed his view according to the proximity of danger.

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