The MCB’s 18th AGM & Convention in Birmingham on Sunday 7th June is tackling key issues affecting our community and society at large: the impact of counter-terrorism legislation and community responses, the every-day social realities and preparing for the challenges ahead, responding to youth activism, on-going campaigns.
Speakers and panellists include:
- Nazir Afzal OBE (former Chief Crown Prosecutor)
- Talat Ahmed (MCB’s ‘Protecting all our children’ project)
- Usman Ali (MADEinEurope)
- Nabeel Al-Azami (Institutional Capacity Building Initiative)
- Sofia Buncy and Ishtiaq Ahmed (co-authors, ‘Muslim Women in Prison’)
- Samayya Afzal (Women’s & Campaigns Officer, University of Bradford Union of Students, elected member of NUS Black Students Committee, and the representative for Society & Citizenship on the NUS National Executive Council)
- Solicitor Nasir Hafezi
- Chris Henley QC
- Tariq Jahan (campaign for a public enquiry into the death of his son and two friends in 2011)
- Sir Iqbal Sacranie (founding Secretary General, MCB)
- AbdoolKarim Vakil (Kings College London & MCB)