Tanveer Ahmed

Tanveer Ahmed is a practicing psychiatrist and writer. He is the author of In Defense of Shame and Fragile Nation.

Twitter
6 Posts

The Sexual Politics of Vasectomies

Vasectomies were illegal in France up until 2001. A Napoleonic code which forbade self mutilation was applied to vasectomies used for contraception.

Tanveer Ahmed

1 Jan 2021 · 6 min read

PODCAST 110: Psychiatrist Tanveer Ahmed on His New Book In Defence of Shame

Quillette Editor-in-Chief Claire Lehmann talks to Dr. Tanveer Ahmed about how we should accept the presence of shame in our lives without succumbing to despair or outrage mobs.

Quillette / Tanveer Ahmed

11 Sep 2020 · 1 min read

Can Public Shaming be Useful?

Just as coronavirus exposes the different fault lines and weaknesses of each society it invisibly penetrates, it has functioned as something of an exclamation mark upon a half-century of social and economic liberalism.

Tanveer Ahmed

1 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

Taming the Lizard Brain

The history of consumerism can be seen be as the growing sophistication to tie our primitive instincts to consumption behaviours.

Tanveer Ahmed

27 Aug 2018 · 6 min read

What Makes a 'Self-Hating' Muslim?

Wajahat Ali’s crime is that by mere association with a Jewish group, he was tarred by important sections of the Islamic community as a traitor.

Tanveer Ahmed

23 Jul 2018 · 7 min read

Muslim Blackmail

This is further illustrated by the uniform theme of victimhood from the Muslim community since the Paris attacks, suggesting the likelihood of any self examination or internal critique is low.

Tanveer Ahmed

11 Dec 2015 · 5 min read