Shiraz Maher was born on 12 July 1981 and is a British writer and analyst, and Director at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence at King's College London.
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Shiraz Maher has written for leading newspapers in Britain and elsewhere, produced reports and studies on counterterrorism strategy, and appeared in the international news media as a commentator on jihad and radicalisation.
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Shiraz Maher was born in 1981 in Birmingham to British-Pakistani parents.
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Shiraz Maher's father was an accountant, and when Shiraz was an infant the family moved to Saudi Arabia.
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In 1995, when he was age 14, Shiraz Maher moved back to Britain.
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Shiraz Maher became a graduate student at University of Cambridge.
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Shiraz Maher was even invited to join the group's British executive committee.
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Shiraz Maher left Hizb ut-Tahrir on 7 July 2005, the day the London Underground bombings took place, killing 52 people.
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Shiraz Maher was a visiting lecturer at Washington College during the spring semester of 2012.
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Shiraz Maher has said that the British government spent years ignoring the radicalisation of a generation of British Muslims.
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Shiraz Maher was awarded the first Konrad Adenauer Foundation Fellowship in Energy Security.
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Shiraz Maher was a fellow at the European Centre for Energy and Resource Security where he explored the impact of political unrest in the Middle East on energy markets.
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Shiraz Maher's articles have appeared in Standpoint, Foreign Affairs, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Spectator, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, The Daily Mail, Haaretz, The Jewish Chronicle, and The New Statesman, and on the websites of BBC News and the Gatestone Institute.