Maajid Nawaz

Maajid Usman Nawaz is a British activist, author, columnist and politician. He was the Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidate for Londons Hampstead and Kilburn constituency in the 2015 general election. He is also the cofounder and chairman of Quilliam, a counterextremism think tank that seeks to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists.

Nawaz was born in Essex, England to parents of Pakistani origin. His mother, Abi, is described as a literatureloving liberal woman whose family moved to Southend, Essex when she was nine. His father, Mo, is an electrical engineer who had worked for the Pakistan Navy but had to leave on medical grounds after he contracted tuberculosis. Mo later worked for the Dewan Group in Islamabad, Pakistan where he won a court case against his employer which had banned trade unions. After moving to UK, Mo worked at an oil company in Libya, and moved between Libya and the UK until his retirement. Maajid has an elder brother and a younger sister. In his memoir, Radical, he uses the pseudonym Osman to denote his brother.

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