'No To Demographics Changes In Syria' - London Protest

Syrians in the United Kingdom are people whose heritage is originated from Syria who were born in or who reside in the

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Demography

The 2011 UK Census recorded 8,526 people who stated that they were born in Syria and reside in

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; 322 in

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, 379 in

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and 31 in

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. The

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estimated that the population stood at 48,000 in 2019. This increase is due largely to the Syrian refugee crisis.

Notable people

This list is by career and then in alphabetical order by the first initial, of the last name.

Actors and entertainment

Patrick Baladi Patrick Bashir Baladi (born 25 December 1971) is an English actor and musician. He is best known for playing Neil Godwin in the BBC sitcom ''The Office'', Michael Jackson in the Sky 1 drama '' Stella'' and Stephen Holmes in the ITV thriller ' ...

(born 1971), actor and musician, known for his role in the British show ‘''

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’'' *

Souad Faress Souad Adel Faress (born 25 March 1948) is a stage, radio, television and film actress based in United Kingdom. She is best known for her portrayal of the solicitor Usha Gupta, in the long-running BBC Radio 4 serial ''The Archers'' and for her ...

(born 1948), actress, best known for her roles in ''Game of Thrones'' (season 6) and BBC’s Radio 4 program ''

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''.

Artists and designers

Moussa Ayoub M. Moussa Ayoub (c.1873–1955) was a Syrian-born British artist known for his portraits. He was an active painter in London and Paris between 1903 until 1938. About He was born 1873 in Damascus, Syria, during the time of Ottoman Syria. Ayoub st ...

(c.1873–1955), Syrian-born British painter and portraiture artist. * Khairat Al-Saleh (born 1940), painter,

ceramicist Ceramic art is art made from ceramic materials, including clay. It may take forms including artistic pottery, including tableware, tiles, figurines and other sculpture. As one of the plastic arts, ceramic art is one of the visual arts. Wh ...

, glassmaker and printmaker * Nabil Nayal: fashion designer who won the Fashion Trust Grant from the British Fashion Council and the Royal Society of Arts Award

Academia

* Kamal Abu-Deeb (born 1942), Chair of Arabic at the

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* Dennis W. Sciama (1926–1999), British

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of Syrian-descent who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War.

Writers and journalists

* Danny Abdul Dayem, citizen-

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who reported from

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between 2011–2012. *

Mai Badr Mai Badr (born 6 July 1968) is the editor-in-chief of '' Hia'' magazine and deputy editor-in-chief of ''Sayidaty'' and ''Al Jamila''. Born in Birmingham, UK, she is of Syrian origin and is considered one of the most prominent Arab women journalists ...

(born 1968), editor-in-chief of Hia Magazine and deputy editor-in-chief of Sayidaty and Al Jamila. * Abdallah Marrash (1839–1900), Syrian writer involved in various Arabic-language newspaper ventures in

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and

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. * Mustapha Karkouti: journalist and media consultant *

Nadim Nassar The Revd Nadim Nassar (born 1964) is a Syrian-British Anglican priest, who is the Executive Director and Founder of the Awareness Foundation. He established the Awareness Foundation in 2003 with Bishop Michael Marshall in response to the growi ...

, writer, director of the '' Awareness Foundation'' and the only British-Syrian priest in the Church of England * Rana Kabbani, writer, broadcaster and cultural historian

Other

* Asma al-Assad (born 1975), the First Lady of Syria. * Kefah Mokbel: breast surgeon and founder of the UK charity Breast Cancer Hope. In November 2010, he was named in the Times magazine's list of Britain's Top Doctors *

Sami Khiyami Sami Khiyami ( ar, سامي خيامي) is a Syrian diplomat, former Syrian ambassador to London. Background Born on 28 August 1948, Khiyami studied Electrical Engineering at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon, and Claude Bernard Unive ...

, Syrian diplomat, former Syrian ambassador to

. *

Shaha Riza Shaha Riza ( ar, شاها علي رضا; born 1953 or 1954), is a Libyan former World Bank employee. Her external assignment at the Foundation for the Future, a "semi-independent foundation to promote democracy" is both in the Middle East and in N ...

(born c.1953), a

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former

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employee. *

Mustafa Suleyman Mustafa Suleyman (born August 1984) is the co-founder and former head of applied AI at DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company acquired by Google and now owned by Alphabet. His current venture is Inflection AI. Early life Suleyman's fath ...

: entrepreneur and co-founder of DeepMind, which

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bought for an estimated £400 million in 2014

References

External links

Associations

Syrian British Medical Society (SBMS)Syria Legal Development Program (SLDP), LondonSyria Relief, ManchesterHand In Hand for Aid and DevelopmentSyrian Platform for Peace (supported by International Alert)The Oxford Kurdish and Syrian Association, OxfordRethink Rebuild, Syrian Community in ManchesterThe Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu)
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