Ed Husain

Co-founder, Quilliam Foundation

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Author of The Islamist: Why I Became an Islamic Fundamentalist, What I Saw Inside, and Why I Left, and co-founder of the Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think-tank based in London   

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