Amanda Figueras
Amanda Figueras (born Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona; born 1978)[1] is a Spanish journalist and writer who worked for El Mundo for more than a decade. She is better known as an islamic activist.
Career
Figueras holds a degree in Journalism and studied for one year in a Portuguese university in line with the Erasmus Programme.[2] Also, she has informal studies of Islamic culture and since 2004 she also writes about the Muslim community. After working for a decade as a journalist for Spanish daily El Mundo, where she has been successfully involved finding synergies between the online and the print edition and established the European Affairs section.[2] After converting to Islam, she wrote a book called "Why Islam: my life as a woman, European and Muslim." She said her journey to Islam started in the aftermath of the 2004 Madrid train bombings when she was working in El Mundo. She is a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations fellow and lives between Madrid and Cairo.[2] In 2015, she began working as a project manager at Foro Abraham for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue. She is also Fellow of the International Dialogue Center Kaiciid. Among the publications she writes articles for is The Islamic Monthly.[3][4][5]
Personal life
Figueras shares her faith with her Egyptian husband and a three-year-old son.[3]
References
- ^ "Why Islam? My life as a woman, a European and a Muslim". Casa Arabe. Archived from the original on 2018-04-08. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ a b c "Amanda Figueras". UNAOC Fellowship. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ a b "'The simplest things opened my eyes to Islam': Writer shares experience of being Spanish Muslim woman". Arab News. 2020-05-09. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ "Amanda Figueras, Author at The Islamic Monthly". The Islamic Monthly. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
- ^ "Refugees and Migrants in Europe: Discrimination and Xenophobia during COVID-19". KAICIID. 2020-05-26. Archived from the original on 2021-12-18. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
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- Spanish Muslims
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- 21st-century Spanish women writers
- Living people
- 1978 births
- Alumni of the Erasmus Programme
- 21st-century Spanish journalists
- 21st-century Spanish women journalists
- Journalists from Catalonia
- 21st-century Muslims