Ed Husain
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Ed Husain in 2009
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| Born |
Mohamed Mahbub Husain 25 December 1974 Mile End, Tower Hamlets, London, England |
| Residence |
New York City, United States |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | MA Middle Eastern Studies |
| Alma mater |
Tower Hamlets College, Newham College, SOAS, University of London, University of Damascus |
| Occupation | Writer, Senior Fellow |
| Employer | Tony Blair Faith Foundation |
| Known for | Author of The Islamist |
| Spouse(s) | Fateha Husain (2000–present) |
| Website | Council on Foreign Relations – Bio Page |
Mohamed "Ed" Husain (born 25 December 1974) is a writer, adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and senior advisor at the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Husain is the author of The Islamist, a book about political Islamism and an account of his five years as an Islamist activist. Husain cofounded, with Maajid Nawaz, the counter-extremism organization the Quilliam Foundation.
He has also worked for HSBC Private Bank and the British Council. In 2014, he was appointed to the Freedom of Religion or Belief Advisory Group of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is also a member of the Independent Review Panel for the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF).
Husain was born and brought up in the East End of London, in a Bangladeshi Muslim family. Husain's father was born in British India and his mother in Bangladesh, from the region of Sylhet. His father arrived in the United Kingdom in 1961, and started a small Indian takeaway business in Limehouse.
Husain's parents followed a spiritual form of Islam based on Sufi traditions, led by Saheb Qibla Fultali.
In his early years, Husain was brought up in Limehouse and attended a local primary school called the Sir William Borough School, and he attended a predominantly Bangladeshi and Muslim secondary school called Stepney Green School. During his years in secondary school Husain was an outsider. He rejected the Bengali gang culture present in the school, and was sometimes oppressed by other students.
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