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We are living in a day and age where Islamophobia is being normalised and the consequences are overlooked by the media and the government.
This event will look at how Muslim women in the west are a target of Islamophobia through physical attacks, verbal harassment and discrimination on the streets, educational institution, workplace and more resulting in the exclusion of Muslim women from society. We will look at Gendered Islamophobia in the current political climate.
We must come together to tackle Islamophobia and challenge the discrimination that Muslim women face today!
Here are great Muslim women that will be joining our panel discussion
Sahar Al-Faifi is a regional manager of Muslim Engagement & Development (MEND), a molecular geneticist by training and community activist by passion. Sahar's activism focuses on seeking to unlock the power of civil society, widen Muslim participation and engagement and build a broad-base alliance for different campaigns that include welcoming refugees, living wage, anti-racism and anti-Islamophobia. She is also a blogger at Huffington Post, has written for the Independent and participated at many TV shows and debates against UKIP
Malia Bouattia is the former president of the National Union of Students. She also held the post of Black Students Officer repressing students of African Asian Arab and Caribbean decent. She is now a journalist who writes for The New Arab, Middle East Eye, Aljazeera and The Guardian. She presents on British Muslim TVs Women Like Us weekly show which centres around Muslim women’s voices in the UK today.
Fatima Diriye is a history and politics undergraduate at SOAS. She’s Community Engagement Officer for Leyton and Wanstead CLP and been involved in NUS Women's and Black Students Campaign. Alongside this, spends her time performing poetry
Amanda Morris is a founding member of Advancing Voices of Women Against Islamophobia (AVOW), and currently works for the Muslims Council of Britain's Centre for Media Monitoring as the Community Liaison Officer, delivering training and workshops around the country to equip Muslim communities with essential skills for engaging with the media. Before joining the MCB, Amanda worked for the Muslim Council of Wales as Administrative Executive and Media Liaison. As a volunteer, she held the position of National Head of Women’s Engagement at MEND, and was also Chair of the Cardiff working group. Amanda has an MA in Islam in Contemporary Britain from Cardiff University, and also holds an MA in Japanese Applied Linguistics from SOAS. She lectures in Japanese at Cardiff University, and in her spare time, runs a support group for new Muslims in her local mosque