Islamophobia in Britain

Miqdaad Versi is part of the Public Affairs team at the Muslim Council of Britain, leading on issues including tackling Islamophobia in the public sphere. As the founder of the Centre for Media Monitoring, he is a campaigner for responsible reporting in the media and has been called “The man correcting stories about Muslims” by the BBC after eliciting dozens of apologies and corrections from national media outlets. His commentary on Muslims in the UK, has been published in tens of articles in the Guardian, Independent, Prospect and New Statesman and with interviews across most main media outlets.