Miqdaad Versi is director for media monitoring at the

Muslim Council of Britain The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) is a national umbrella body with over 500 mosques and educational and charitable associations affiliated to it. It includes national, regional, local, and specialist Muslim organisations and institutions from ...

. As well as holding the position as one of the council's active public representatives, Versi is also engaged with the media voicing concerns over the misrepresentation of Muslims. ''

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'' described him as "''the UK’s one-man Islamophobia media monitor.''" Versi occasionally writes opinion pieces for the ''

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'' and the ''

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''. He is a board member of Rights Watch UK. Versi also runs a travel agency in north-west London full-time. Versi grew up in Harrow, London. His father moved to the UK from east Africa in the 1970s and worked as an engineer. His mother worked as a nursery teacher. He read mathematics at the

University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...

. During his university studies, in pursuit of his interest in Islamic jurisprudence, Versi spent one year in Damascus, Syria learning Arabic and Islamic law. He later worked for

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and then for the

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