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WHO WE ARE/ Management Team


What is Islamic Relief?


IR Worldwide was established in Birmingham in 1984. IR HQ staff are from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds and 80% live locally. Employees use their diverse skills to support a worldwide team of staff and many volunteers who work in international emergency relief and on development programmes in several countries. IR also owns a subsidiary company based in Saltley, Birmingham UK, which employs 50 staff in the clothes recycling business.


Islamic Relief

Name: Mr Ibrahim El Zayat

Title: Chair of Board of Trustees

Ibrahim F El-Zayat is a German citizen. His academic career at the German universities of Darmstadt, Marburg and Cologne focused upon the study of law, Islamic Economics and a specialised emphasis upon the economic challenges of developing countries achieving a Masters in Economics. Mr El-Zayat holds positions in several Muslim organisations in Germany and Europe and regularly lectures on issues of integration and Muslim identity in European countries, as well as Islamic finance and economics.

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