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British Muslim activist

For Egyptian footballer, see Osama Hassan

Usama Hasan is a British Senior Analyst at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change and has described himself as a "a full-time counter-extremism practitioner since 2012".^[2][3] He was also a senior researcher in Islamic Studies at the Quilliam Foundation^[4] until it was closed down in April 2021.^[5] He is a former senior lecturer in business information systems at Middlesex University,^[4][6] and a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.^[7][8]

Career

Hasan who comes from an Indo-Pakistani family holds no formal qualifications in Islamic Studies or Arabic language from any Islamic university but states he was taught personally by his father, Suhaib Hasan, who is a Saudi Arabia-trained Islamic scholar, while his grandfather, Abdul-Ghaffar Hasan Al-Hindi (d.

2007), was a scholar as well, having taught at the Islamic