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) Companies House Nisa-Nashim: Officers. archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/3X7aE (co-chair) Julie Siddiqi Profile, HuffPost, Archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/1ALaC. 
** Contextualising Islam in Britain II project - participant 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.
** Independent member, Narratives of Conversion - faculty member for the Cambridge Coexist Leadership Programme 2013 - alumni of the Women in Leadership, from Windsor Leadership, 2015 Julie Siddiqi Profile, HuffPost, Archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/1ALaC. 
** Advisor for Mitzvah Day, Founder and Director of Sadaqa Day (since 2015), 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/ 
** Coordinated the Big Iftar during Ramadan 2014 “culminating in the first ever Iftar reception at Lambeth Palace hosted by Archbishop Justin Welby.” Julie Siddiqi, Greenbelt Festival, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/vpexH 
*Contextualising Islam in Britain II project - participantCONTEXTUALISING 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.
*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-NashimHuffPost Julie Siddiqi. Accessed 21 April 2020.
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. Julie Siddiqi, Greenbelt Festival, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/vpexH Siddiqi also visited the Ministry of Defence to be briefed about British armed operations in Iraq in 2014. 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 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. Julie Siddiqi, Greenbelt Festival, archived on 12 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/vpexH 
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.” 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 
==Related==
*Naved Siddiqi - husband, New Horizons in British Islam New Horizons for British Islam, Charity Commission, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/wip/Y06my and Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Trustees, Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, archived on 13 October 2021 at https://archive.ph/nBLLd 
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