Biography
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Dilwar Hussain is President of the Islamic Society of Britain. In his day job, he is Head of the Policy Research Centre, based at the Islamic Foundation; a Senior Programme Advisor to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue; and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Islamic Studies, Cambridge University. He lectures on Islam in contemporary society and has a number of published works in the field, including: British Muslims Between Assimilation and Segregation (co-authored, 2004) and British Muslims: Loyalty and Belonging, (co-edited, 2003).
Dilwar is a Trustee of the Three Faiths Forum (3FF) and a Trustee of Maslaha. He was a Commissioner at the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) (2006-2007) and was a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Inquiry into the Prevent strategy (2010). His primary research interests are social policy, Muslim identity and Islamic reform in the modern world. Dilwar is on the steering group of the Contextualising Islam in Britain Project at Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Royal Foundation of St. Katharine’s Contextual Theology Centre, London. He served on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Commission on Urban Life and Faith (2005 – 2006) and was co-chair of Alif-Aleph UK (2005), a network of young British Jews and Muslims. Dilwar is married, has four children and lives in Leicester. External Event Url