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Mary Batool Al-Toma

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Known For: Director, New Muslims Project
Country: United Kingdom

About

Mary Batool Al-Toma is the Director of the New Muslims Project - UK, a pioneering project related to the support, education, and continued development of the growing Muslim convert community in the UK. She is editor of “Meeting Point,” the New Muslims Project’s newsletter. Over the years, she has devised a number of education and training programs, which have been delivered in the UK and Europe. She is a media consultant on images of Muslims in the media, aspects of Islam and family life, and other related issues. Ms. Al-Toma was selected to represent the East Midlands on the National Muslim Woman’s Advisory Group (NMWAGS), established by the Department of Communities and Local Government in 2008. She has since sat on the Cambridge Theology Board and its symposiums relating to contextualizing Islam in Britain; she has also advised on the Government’s research carried out on the training of Imams in the UK by Gloucester University. Ms. Al-Toma is a founding member of the Forum against Islamophobia and Racism (FAIR) and the Muslim Woman’s Network UK (MWN-UK). She is a UK representative on the European think tank, European Muslim Network (EMN) in Brussels, and is a professional mediator working with the National Family Mediation Trust.

Ms. Al-Toma is married and has four children.

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