Mona Siddiqui
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Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood neighbourhoods of influential Britons.
Mona Siddiqui, Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow University, takes Wendy back to her childhood home in Huddersfield. She recalls growing up in a literary family and her mother's insistence on living separately from the wider Muslim community.
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