Wyn Davies studied anthropology at University College, London, worked for Welsh local newspapers as a reporter, and then for the BBC, first in radio and then for TV, where she produced religious affairs and worked on "Everyman", "Heart of the Matter" and "Global Report." She produced a documentary, "Encounters with Islam."

She left the BBC in 1985 for the London Muslim magazine Inquiry/Afkar. After ten years in Malaysia producing "Faces of Islam" on TV, she returned to the UK and became Media Officer for the Muslim Council of Britain.

• Darwin and fundamentalism (2000)
• Knowing one another: shaping an Islamic anthropology (1988)

With Ziauddin Sardar

• Will America Change? Icon Books, Cambridge, 2008
• American Dream, Global Nightmare, Icon Books, Cambridge, 2004
• American terminator: myths, movies and global power 2004
• The No Nonsense Guide to Islam, Verso, London, 2004
• Why Do People Hate America?, Icon Books, London, 2003
• A Manifesto on Western Racism, Pluto Press, London, 1993 (also with Ashis Nandy)
• Lessons from the Rushdie Affair, Grey Seal/Berita Publishing, London/Kuala Lumpur, 1990
• Distorted imagination: lessons from the Rushdie affair 1990
• Faces of Islam: conversations on contemporary issues 1989

With others

• Introducing Anthropology 2005 (with Piero, Richard Appignanesi)
• Beyond Frontiers: Islam and Contemporary Needs 1989 (with Adnan Khalil Pasha)
• The Blinded Eye: 500 Years of Christopher Columbus (with Claude Alvares)