page_title: Ed Husain
hierarchical_section_title: Ed Husain
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of Mohammed Mahbub Hussain (Ed Husain).
context_page_description: Mohamed "Ed" Husain is a Bengali writer, senior fellow at the British think tank Civitas, and a global fellow of the Wilson Center's Middle East program. He is the author of The Islamist, an account of his five years as an Islamist activist in Britain, and The House of Islam: A Global History, which discusses the classical tenets of Islam and the ways in which they have been distorted by political Islamists. He regularly advises governments on national security and combatting extremist ideology.
  Husain is a former senior advisor to Tony Blair and a former senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Husain is a cofounder of the counter-extremism organization Quilliam. In 2014, he was appointed to the Freedom of Religion or Belief Advisory Group of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has also worked for HSBC Private Bank and the British Council. In 2019, Husain was listed as one of London's most influential figures in The Progress 1000 by the Evening Standard for his role in countering Islamist extremism and advocating for a pluralist Islam.
context_section_description: Mohamed "Ed" Husain (born 25 December 1974) is a Bengali writer, senior fellow at the British think tank Civitas, and a global fellow of the Wilson Center's Middle East program. He is the author of The Islamist, an account of his five years as an Islamist activist in Britain, and The House of Islam: A Global History, which discusses the classical tenets of Islam and the ways in which they have been distorted by political Islamists. He regularly advises governments on national security and combatting extremist ideology.
  Husain is a former senior advisor to Tony Blair and a former senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Husain is a cofounder of the counter-extremism organization Quilliam.  In 2014, he was appointed to the Freedom of Religion or Belief Advisory Group of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He has also worked for HSBC Private Bank and the British Council. In 2019, Husain was listed as one of London's most influential figures in The Progress 1000 by the Evening Standard for his role in countering Islamist extremism and advocating for a pluralist Islam.
caption: Ed Husain in 2009
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