Batool Al Toma is Director of the New Muslims Project, a UK based service supporting converts to Islam. As part of the NMP, Batool has initiated and produced several research reports including: Between Integration and Isolation – a Report on the Convert Community in Leicester community in Leicester; Narratives of Conversion to Islam in Britain – Female Perspectives.
Imam Abdullah Hasan has experience of being an imam for the last 15 years in various communities in the UK; in London, Manchester and Midlands.
Amongst his many other accolades, he has established two mosques and has been a committee member for both of them for over a decade.
Catriona Robertson is the director of the Christian Muslim Forum which was created with the intention to build relationships between Christians and Muslims in the flesh and online, individually and institutionally. the CMF forum is nearly ten years old, and has a 5000-strong Facebook group. Catriona and members travel to Jerusalem and to Bosnia in mixed groups, and support church mosque twinning, and they have a women’s network. She helps to tackle difficult issues, produce resources, and make public statements, but she also does simple things, like making bread together.
Professor El-Gomati obtained his BSc degree in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Tripoli in 1970 and went on to study for his MSc in California and PhD from York. He became a Professor in Electronics at the University of York in 1997. His research interests are in Surface Science and Electron Optics with particular emphasis on the development of novel instrumentation for nanos-scale structure and analysis. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 articles and patents in these fields.
Sheikh Bilal Brown has studied over 8 years across the Muslim world in the Middle East shortly after his acceptance of Islam in 1999. He returned to the UK in 2006 however departed again in 2008 to further his study of the Islamic Sciences. He graduated from a 4-year intensive 6-day a week course on Shari’ah studies at the al-Dawli Institute of Arabic and Islamic Sciences in Damascus in 2012. This was in addition to private studies with prominent scholars in Damascus.
