Ed Husain (born 25 December 1974) is a British author and a

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at the

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. As a political advisor he has worked with leaders and governments across the world. Husain is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) focused on U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East generally, and specifically at the intersection of Arab-Israeli relations after the Abraham Accords, the geopolitical interplay of Arab Gulf states, China-Muslim world dynamics, and Islamist terrorism. As a professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, he teaches classes on global security, Arab-Israeli peace, and the shared intellectual roots of the West and Islam. He was previously a senior fellow and director of the

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’s N7 Initiative which is focused on peace in the Middle East and broadening and strengthening relationships between Israel and its Arab and Muslim neighbours. He has held senior fellowships at think tanks in London and New York, including at the

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(CFR) at the height of the Arab uprisings (2010–2015). While at CFR, his policy innovation memo led to the US-led creation of a Geneva-based global fund to help counter terrorism. He is also a member of the editorial board of the Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, a monthly

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covering research on

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and

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. Husain was a senior advisor to former British Prime Minister

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(2015–2018). From 2018 to 2021 he completed his doctoral studies on Western philosophy and Islam under the direction of the English philosopher Sir

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. He is the author of ''The Islamist'' (Penguin, 2007), ''The House of Islam: A Global History'' (Bloomsbury, 2018), and ''Among the Mosques'' (Bloomsbury, 2021). His writing has been shortlisted for the George Orwell Prize. A regular contributor to the Spectator magazine, he has appeared on the

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and CNN and has written for the

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, the

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and other publications.

Early life

Husain was born and brought up in the East End of London, in an

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and

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family. Husain's father was born in

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to a family connected to the Yemeni saint Shah Jalal. His father arrived in the

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in 1961, and started a small Indian takeaway business in

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.Ann McFerran (10 August 2008
''Best of Times, Worst of Times: Ed Husain''
Times Online. Retrieved on 15 February 2009. In his early years, Husain was brought up in Limehouse and attended a local primary school called the Sir William Burrough School, and he attended Stepney Green School, a state secondary school. Husain attended the Brick Lane Mosque in his early years with his parents, who followed a spiritual form of Islam based on

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traditions.

Education

Husain has a BA in history from the

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, and later studied at

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, where he completed an MA in Middle Eastern Studies. His doctoral research was under the supervision of Sir Roger Scruton at The University of Buckingham.

Career

After completing his undergraduate degree, Husain worked for

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for several years. He then moved to

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with his wife in 2002, where he worked for the British Council teaching English whilst studying

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at the University of Damascus. After two years in Syria, Husain and his wife moved to Jeddah to be closer to the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina while continuing to work for the British Council. Upon his return to Britain, Husain worked as a senior advisor to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. In 2008, he cofounded a think tank with the aim to "challenge extremist narratives while advocating pluralistic, democratic alternatives that are consistent with universal human rights standards" and to stand "for religious freedom, equality, human rights and democracy". Husain later joined the

in New York, where he was Senior Fellow in Middle Eastern Studies. He focused on trends within Arab

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, perceptions of the West in the

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, and US policy toward the

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, writing broadly on the

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and its implications for the region and foreign involvement. He was appointed to the Freedom of Religion or Belief Advisory Group of the British

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in 2014. In 2017, Husain joined the Wilson Center as a Global Fellow in its Middle East Program. He was a Senior Fellow at Civitas: Institute for the Study of Civil Society in London, where he ran the 'Islam, the West, and Geopolitics' research project. Husain was appointed as a

in the

in 2021 and a senior fellow and director of the

’s N7 Initiative in 2023.

Views

While at the Council on Foreign Relations, Husain commented on U.S. policy on issues ranging from the 2011 U.S. congressional hearings on radicalization spearheaded by Rep. Peter King (R-NY) to the events of the

and the

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. Since joining Civitas, Husain has commented on Islam and society, the British political system, the prospect of a Middle East Federation, and the role of Saudi Arabia in the geopolitics of Islam. In an article in the ''Spectator'' at the end of 2019, Husain highlighted shifting alliances in the Middle East and the possibility of a new Arab-Israeli alliance. It was discussed widely in the region. He has appeared on CNN, Fox, NPR,

, Al-Jazeera, and has been published in the ''New York Times'', ''Financial Times'', ''Guardian'', ''National Review'', ''Spectator'', ''Telegraph'' and ''Jewish Chronicle'', among other media outlets.

Islam and society

Husain supports a liberal interpretation of Islamic jurisprudence, telling one journalist:

In traditional circles, Muslim women are not allowed to marry non-Muslim men...But in a pluralistic world in 2007, where non-Muslim men and Muslim women are marrying, you can't say, 'You can’t do that.'

Husain also questions teachings relating to an Islamic state or

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, arguing:

... a '' dawlah'' ( statenot 'the' state) can and should preserve and protect the religion. But 'the state' is not a '' rukn'' illarof the ''deen'' (religion i.e. Islam) and without it the ''deen'' is not lost. And individual can remain a firm believer, a ''mutadayyin'', without the ''
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'' and the ''jama'ah''.

He believes that Islam is fully compatible with Western democratic society, stating that the

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does not teach a compulsion to faith or the murder of unbelievers. Husain has espoused this view in numerous commentaries, articles, and books, stating:

… the lived reality of Islam as a religion of compassion, pluralism, coexistence, and peace is a far cry from how it is perceived by many in the West.

The raison d’être of Islamic civilisations and the shariah for a thousand years was to provide five things: security, worship, preservation of the family, nourishment of the intellect and protection of property. These are called maqasid, or the higher objectives of the shariah. Britain provides these in multitudes for every Muslim today.

Husain has also urged Muslims in the West to respond to the challenge of

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. In an article in the ''Evening Standard'', he stated that:

Too often in Britain, in the name of freedom we provide protection for this murderous mindset. This mix of political ideology and puritan theology leads to the global curse of Salafi-Jihadism. We must stop protecting it...Most victims of Salafi-Jihadism are ordinary Muslims. In Britain, teachers, imams, politicians, social workers and families must not protect intolerance, but reject it.

Middle East Federation

Husain has called for a federal union of Middle Eastern states along the lines of the

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in order to defeat religious sectarianism in the region and promote economic and political cooperation. He writes:

After all, most of its problems –
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,
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,
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,
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, refugee crises, water shortages – require regional answers. No country can solve its problems on its own.

Saudi Arabia

Husain is a noted critic of Saudi Arabia's human rights abuses and role in promoting Islamist extremism worldwide. He has, however, spoken against isolating Saudi Arabia politically, arguing that the rise of Iranian theocracy in the Middle East requires ever closer alliances between the west and its Arab allies. Though critical of Saudi Prince

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, Husain has written in favour of western, and specifically British, support for his early steps towards reform in order to 'shape the future of a global shift towards peace and co-existence' between the Middle East and the West.

Bahrain

In an op-ed for the ''New York Times'' in 2012, Husain analysed the political unrest in

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in the wake of the

after a visit to the reforming Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. Noting the strong influence of the pro-Iranian anti-democracy cleric Ayatollah Issa Qasim on the Shiite opposition party Al Wefaq (which blocked bills for women's rights and equality that were supported by both the monarchy and Sunni parties), Husain urged the West not to "provide diplomatic cover for rioters and clerics in the name of human rights and democracy". He called Bahrain a '"focal point of what is happening in the Middle East today – the battle to find a balance between preserving the best values of the Islamic tradition while the region eases its way into the modern world."

Israel and Palestine

Husain supports a

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to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He has condemned the suicide bombing of Israeli civilians as well as the killing of Palestinian civilians by the Hamas-led Gazan government, and also what he referred to as the Zionist terrorism of the Stern gang and others.. He is opposed to the international boycott of Israel by activists, stating in ''

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'' that:

ISIL

Husain has sought to explain the theological pull of ISIL in the West through analyses of its fundamentalist ideological interpretations of Islam. He has urged western governments to take on a deeper understanding of its extremist worldview, arguing:

Unless we decimate the theological and ideological appeal of Isis, we will see the rise of an even more radicalised and violent force. Isis offers a caliphate and death. Our message needs to be of life, an Islam of the Muslim majority supported by 1,400 years of history. We must help Arab allies to reform, to create a regional Middle East union that transcends artificial borders, creates economic prosperity and reinstates Arab dignity. Terrorists cannot compete on this stage.

U.S. response to the Arab Spring

On the

, he has said:

The Arab world is no longer across the oceans. It is also on our streets here. Millions of American citizens are of Arab descent. Millions more are here as workers and students. What happens over there matters here. Can America make these people proud and empower them against Muslim extremists by changing the American story and making us all safer? Yes, it can. It must.

Husain advocates American soft power and leadership in modelling democracy. Countering the US response to the Egyptian military's raiding of NGO offices in 2012, he said:

The U.S. government should ask its military allies to return to their barracks and cease killing protesters—and that it should tie these demands to U.S. aid. ... The Arab revolutionaries did not look to
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or
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for a model of government. They looked to four-year presidential terms, inspired directly by American democracy. Islamist leaders such as Tunisia's Mohamed Ghannouchi condemn French secularism but highlight American accommodation of religion as a model of a secular state that is less hostile to religion.

However, Husain argued against U.S. military intervention in Syria, stating:

What happens in Syria does not stay in
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. ... U.S. military intervention in Syria would likely see traditional state actors backing rival groups ( Sunnis and
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, for example,
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and
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by
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,
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and
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by
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, a former colonial master, or even indirectly Israel). Worse, there is a real possibility of the emergence of an
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-inspired organization inside Syria to fight "Western imperialism," much like al-Qaeda or the "Sunni insurgency" in Iraq.

Al-Qaeda

In a May 2011 op-ed in ''

'', Husain warned against

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's success as a brand:

Without doubt, the US was right to remove bin Laden, but it is wrong to think that his death will weaken al-Qaeda. Yes, a colossal psychological blow has been dealt, but al-Qaeda is no longer a mere organisation, but a global brand, an idea, a philosophy that now has its first Saudi martyr from the holy lands of Islam.

However, Husain criticized the September 2011 extrajudicial killing of American citizen

Anwar al-Awlaki Anwar Nasser Abdulla al-Awlaki (; April 21 or 22, 1971September 30, 2011) was an American-Yemeni lecturer assassinated Drone strikes in Yemen, in Yemen in 2011 by a U.S. government drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama. Al-Awlaki was th ...

, explaining that it is "counterproductive to defeating terrorism in the long term because it demolishes the very values that America stands for: the rule of law and trial by jury." Furthermore, "An easier, cheaper and more effective way of discrediting al-Awlaki and countering his message would have been to disclose his three arrests for the solicitation of prostitutes ..."

Syrian Civil War

Husain has warned of the involvement of Al-Qaeda and like minded groups in the Syrian Civil War:

Whether Assad stays or goes,
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now has a strong foothold in Syria. The
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may wish to dismiss its al-Qaeda allies as irrelevant in order to reassure the West and continue receiving Western support, but the jihadi websites and footage of al-Qaeda fighting in Damascus and Aleppo tell a different story.
National Review "Syria: Why al-Qaeda is Winning"

Publications

Husain is the author of three books: ''The Islamist'', which was a finalist for the George Orwell prize for political writing, ''The House of Islam: A Global History'', published in 2018, and ''Among the Mosques: A Journey Across Muslim Britain'', published in 2021.

References

External links

Bio page at CFR.org
* ''The Islamist'' �

The Quilliam Foundation website
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