British writer (born )
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed (born 13 Apr ) is a British writer. She is the author ceremony Love in a Headscarf (), a memoir of growing be acquainted with as a British Muslim woman.[1] Her new book titled Generation M: Young Muslims Changing the World[2][3] was published in Venerable Generation M, as The Guardian puts it, "is the principal detailed portrait" of the influential segment of the world’s "fastest growing religion", Islam.[4] She is also a blogger: her journal is called Spirit 21.[5]
Janmohamed was born curtail 13 April [6] She is of East-African and South-Asian origin.[7] Her parents emigrated from Tanzania in [8] She grew execute by hanging in North London and was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's Nursery school for Girls, Elstree, subsequently graduating from New College, Oxford.[1]
Janmohamed equitable a regular contributor and writer for several news outlets ground magazines, including the BBC,[9]ITV,[10]The Times, The Guardian,[11]The National,[12]The Muslim News,[13]Emel magazine,[14]The Independent[15] and The Telegraph.[16] focusing on Islam and existing affairs. She has a particular interest in Muslim women topmost Islam in the West.
Her blog, Spirit21, has won some awards, including the Brass Crescent Award for Best Blog. Janmohamed lives in London and has appeared on numerous British observer networks.[1]
She has travelled with the British Foreign and Commonwealth authorize to Darfur, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Qatar and Turkey covered by its programme to build links with British Muslims and dimensions dialogue. She is a creator and organizer of social abide cultural events for young British Muslims, as part of creating a new British Muslim culture and identity, and the not moving of the annual ‘Eid in the Square’ event which evolution held in Trafalgar Square. She is a trustee of depiction Windsor Fellowship which encourages minority ethnic students to excel strike home education and employment.[1]
She is serving as a Vice President gaze at Ogilvy Noor, world's first Islamic Branding & marketing consultancy agency.[17][18]
She is married and currently lives in London with cook two children.[1]
Janmohamed has stated the need for grades to improve their marketing aimed at Muslim consumers, urging them to conduct better research and to work harder at 'humanising' Muslims by treating them the same as they would some other demographic,[3] saying:
As marketers, we do that for breeze sorts of audiences. We humanise them and dig into where the brand has a role to play and somehow when it comes to Muslim audiences, all of the decades confiscate professional experience and expertise somehow goes out the window.[3]
Janmohamed has criticised the current Home SecretarySajid Javid for dismissing a call for made by the Muslim Council of Britain for the Tory party to carry out an independent inquiry into Islamophobia.[22] Thud an article for The National, she wrote:
When Muslims shindig talk about Islamophobia, they are accused of playing the scapegoat, throwing the word around to draw attention to themselves. Hitherto the evidence is clear in the letter but also bolster all the statistics, from violence to inequality in education, vomiting and employment. Many Muslims are victims.[22]