“There was laughter everywhere that he went.”
Fuad Nahdi — a prominent British Muslim journalist and activist who published an influential Muslim-focused magazine and was a key voice in Britain’s Muslim community — died on March 21 after falling ill with what his family later learned was the novelNahdi, 62, who had other health issues stemming from diabetes and cancer, fell severely ill and “spiraled really fast,” his son, Nadir Nahdi, told BuzzFeed News.
Friends and family remembered Nahdi’s charismatic personality, his talent for networking and mentoring, and his important role in shaping contemporary British Muslim identity. Born in Tanzania in 1957, Nahdi grew up in Mombasa, Kenya, and went to the University of Nairobi. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1983 after winning a scholarship to attend SOAS University of London. In the UK, he met Humera Khan, and the couple married in 1989. They had two children together: Nadir, 30, founder of online platform Beni, and Ilyeh, 25, a speech and language therapist.
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