Iman Abou Atta

Iman Abou Atta is the Deputy Director of Faith Matters.

For over 10 years, Iman has built bridges between European and Middle Eastern communities through medical, community and charitable organizations in the Middle East.

She has been working with numerous interfaith projects within the region and has also travelled extensively to give lectures and deliver workshops to interfaith groups in countries such as Taiwan, the United Kingdom and The Netherlands.

Iman was instrumental in the development of a ground-breaking project looking at tensions in some localized areas in the UK between Muslim and Sikh communities and she helped to lead groups of British based Sikhs and Muslims to Corrymeela in Northern Ireland, which has been involved in facilitating conflict resolution programmes for over 30 years.

Iman has also been instrumental in the development of youth and women programmes with Faith Matters nationaly and internationally .These programmes will focus on issues such as human rights, citizenship, community cohesion and conflict resolution.

Rehman

Rehman successfully obtained an MA in Business Management in addition to an MA in Human Rights from Kingston University, London.

Rehman works as a Project Manager for Faith Matters UK and is focused on the organisation’s Pakistan chapter. He is actively engaged in managing the operations of a wide range of interfaith, countering extremism and developmental projects in Pakistan. His work had led him to travel extensively within Pakistan and he has held various interfaith dialogue and cultural events. He has successfully carried out a number of counter-extremism campaigns in Pakistan and has managed to encourage the youth in the country to participate in those campaigns in order to raise their voices against discrimination and extremism. This work has enabled him to develop strong links with prominent members of civil society; including human rights activists, journalists, Islamabad-based diplomats, politicians and Government officials.

Before joining Faith Matters, Rehman worked for the Citizens Advice Bureau on their campaign for Equality and Diversity. He carried out extensive research on this project and attended various conferences across the UK. He has also been actively involved in a number of voluntary assignments for different NGOs including Oxfam UK.

Sarah

Sarah is a Project Manager at Faith Matters. She has developed and implemented a range of national and international projects for the organisation, working most closely within our Women and Youth programme strands. In addition to the implementation of many other projects related to interfaith dialogue and community cohesion; she has a particular interest in youth participation and in working together with young people and marginalised groups to bringing about sustainable development and social change locally and internationally.