Born & raised in Essex Maajid Nawaz was recruited into politicised Islam as a teenager. Abandoning his love of hip hop music graffiti & girls he was recruited into Hizb ut-Tahrir (the Liberation Party) where he played a leading & international role in the shaping & dissemination of an aggressive anti-West narrative. While studying for his Arabic & law degree he travelled around the UK & to Denmark & Pakistan setting up new cells. Arriving in Egypt the day before 9/11 his views soon led to his arrest imprisonment & mental torture before being thrown into solitary confinement in a Cairo jail reserved for political prisoners. There while mixing with everyone from the assassins of Egypts president to Liberal reformists he underwent an intellectual transformation & on his release after four years he publically renounced the Islamist ideology that had defined his life. This move would cost him his marriage his family & his friends as well as his own personal security. Five years after his release Maajid now works all over the world to counter Islamism & to promote democratic ideals through his organisation The Quilliam Foundation which he co-founded with former Islamist & bestselling author Ed Husain. Following in the wake of the extraordinary democratic change in the Arab world that few would have foretold Radical is Maajids intensely personal account of life inside & out of Islamic extremism. It also highlights one mans quest to inspire change & challenge extremism in all its forms.