Julie Siddiqi
Julie Siddiqi is an interfaith activist and has worked in 'counter extremism'. She is one of the co-founders of Nisa-Nashim a group which is dedicated to normalising Zionism in the British Muslim community.
Affiliations
- Julie Siddiqi Director (27 Sept 2016 - 3 Nov 2020) [1] (co-chair) [2]
- Contextualising Islam in Britain II project - participant [3]
- Independent member, Narratives of Conversion - faculty member for the Cambridge Coexist Leadership Programme 2013 - alumni of the Women in Leadership, from Windsor Leadership, 2015 [4]
- Advisor for Mitzvah Day, Founder and Director of Sadaqa Day (since 2015), [5]
- Coordinated the Big Iftar during Ramadan 2014 “culminating in the first ever Iftar reception at Lambeth Palace hosted by Archbishop Justin Welby.” [6]
- Contextualising Islam in Britain II project - participant[7]
- Advisor for Mitzvah Day
- Patron for Muju, a Jewish/Muslim theatre company
- Executive Director of the Islamic Society of Britain from 2010-2014
- member of the Government’s National Muslim Women's Advisory Group
- mentor for the Prince of Wales Charity, Mosaic
- Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group - independent member
- Narratives of Conversion
- faculty member for the Cambridge Coexist Leadership Programme 2013
- alumni of the Women in Leadership, from Windsor Leadership, 2015
- Founder and Director of Sadaqa Day, a one day Muslim-led focus on social action, which was launched in March 2015
- co-chair of Nisa-Nashim[8]
Siddiqi was the executive director of the Islamic Society of Britain from 2010-2014 and has spoken at the Christian festival, Greenbelt and the Jewish festival, Limmud, and at receptions hosted by the British Armed Forces. [9] Siddiqi also visited the Ministry of Defence to be briefed about British armed operations in Iraq in 2014. [10] Previously, Siddiqi was a member of the government’s National Muslim Women’s Advisory Group and mentor for the Prince of Wales charity, Mosaic. Siddiqi is chair of her local Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education and also sits on the national Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group as an independent member. [11]
In December 2019, Siddiqi and Nisa-Nashim ran a session with Judy Silkoff, Director of Operations at the Board of Deputies of British Jews at the Limmud conference titled “Hands off our headscarves.” [12]
Related
- Naved Siddiqi - husband, New Horizons in British Islam [13] and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. [14]
Notes
- ↑ Companies House Nisa-Nashim: Officers. archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/3X7aE
- ↑ Julie Siddiqi Profile, HuffPost, Archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/1ALaC.
- ↑ CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN BRITAIN Project Leader Professor Yasir Suleiman Director, HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE in Association with the UNIVERSITIES OF EXEtER AND WESTMINSTER January 2012.
- ↑ Julie Siddiqi Profile, HuffPost, Archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/1ALaC.
- ↑ Nisa- Nashim, Hope not Hate, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/A3Vz4/again?url=https://hopenothate.org.uk/2018/01/10/nisa-nashim/
- ↑ Julie Siddiqi, Greenbelt Festival, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/vpexH
- ↑ CONTEXTUALISING ISLAM IN BRITAIN Project Leader Professor Yasir Suleiman Director, HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, Cambridge UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE in Association with the UNIVERSITIES OF EXEtER AND WESTMINSTER January 2012.
- ↑ HuffPost Julie Siddiqi. Accessed 21 April 2020.
- ↑ Julie Siddiqi, Greenbelt Festival, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/vpexH
- ↑ Staff Writer, UK defense ministry briefs Muslim community leaders on Iraq mission, Alarabiya News, 10 October 2014, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/8Elup
- ↑ Julie Siddiqi, Greenbelt Festival, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/vpexH
- ↑ Board of Deputies of British Jews, Twitter Account, Tweet: 11:24 AM, 26 Dec 2019, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/lpPiK
- ↑ New Horizons for British Islam, Charity Commission, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/Y06my
- ↑ Trustees, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/nBLLd
