Jeremy Henzell-Thomas is a Research Associate (and former Visiting Fellow) at the Centre of Islamic Studiesat the University of Cambridge. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Executive Committee ofย the Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS UK), he was the first Chair of the Forum Against Islamophobiaย and Racism (FAIR), and is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Book Foundation. Currently an Associate Editor of Critical Muslim, he has also written regular columns over the years for Islamica and Emelย magazines, and the Credo column in The Times. A former lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, he endeavors to apply his academic specialisms of philology and psycholinguistics to contemporaryย issues affecting public perception of Islam and Muslims, and to the advancement of critically aware dialogue andย polylogue in a range of socio-cultural and educational contexts.ย