Anas Altikriti was born in Baghdad in 1968, and came to settle in the UK in 1970. Professionally, Anas Altikriti has lectured in Translation and Interpreting studies at Leeds University since 1995 and at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh between 2000 and 2003.
His main activities however, have been in the public forum, campaigning throughout Britain's
Dr. Azzam Tamimi is the Director of the London-based Institute of Islamic Political Thought (IIPT). From September 2000 to 30 March 2004, he worked as a senior lecturer at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education in Leicestershire. He was visiting professor at Kyoto University in Japan from 31 March to 30 September 2004 and visiting professor at Nagoya University in Japan from 30 December 2005 to 30 March 2006.
I am a writer and freelance journalist specialising in Palestine/Israel. I also write on the broader Middle East, the ‘war on terror’, Christian-Muslim relations, and a Christian theology of social justice.
Daud Abdullah was born in Grenada where he received his early education. He obtained his first degree from the University of Guyana in 1981 and was awarded a scholarship to study Arabic language at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia. In 1984 he joined the University of Khartoum, Sudan to pursue postgraduate studies and was awarded his doctorate in 1989. His last posting in Saudi Arabia was as editor and translator at the Abul Qasim Publishing House in Jeddah.
Ismail Patel is the chairman and founding member of the Friends of Al-Aqsa. His other roles include: Spokesperson for the British Muslim Initiative; Senior Advisor to the Conflicts Forum, (which seeks to establish a new understanding of political Islam in the West and has a membership group spanning diplomats, academics and journalists); Director of IslamExpo; and member of the Special Advisory Board of Clear Conscience.
John Rose is a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party and a long standing campaigning activist for the liberation of Palestine. He was one of the co-organisers of the recent highly successful BDS, Boycott Sanctions Disinvestment public meetings tour in December with speakers from PACBI, the Palestine boycott movement, ANC, the South African anti-apartheid liberation movement and COSATU the black trade union, and the newly independent Egyptian
Originally from Lowestoft in Suffolk (the most easterly point in England), Stephen is the vicar, or senior pastor, of Christ Church, Virginia Water. He became a Christian at university and served as an evangelist with Agape in the UK and Eastern Europe for four years before training for the Anglican ministry at Trinity College, Bristol.
Uthman Lateef has been the Director of the Hittin Institute since March 2008. He has a BA (First Class Hons) in History, an MA (Distinction) in Crusading Studies with a dissertation on religious poetry in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and is currently completing a PhD in the Muslim literary effort to inspire a yearning for Jerusalem in the twelfth century.
