Senior Consultant in International and Humanitarian Affairs, writer and policy adviser
Nadeem has been involved in human rights advocacy, humanitarian development, community relations and international affairs for over two decades. He was Al-Khoei Foundation's head of international relations and their main representative to the UN after he was responsible for helping the organization gain consultative status there. He edited the international current affairs monthly, ‘Dialogue’ between 1993 and 2005.
In 2005, Nadeem was part of the British Government’s Taskforce on Preventing Extremism. He founded The Britslam Partnership a year later as an innovative consultancy catalyzing change through multi-level engagement processes. BrItslam, emphasizing 'British' and 'Islam') have delivered key projects in the areas of human rights advocacy, community cohesion, media and international development.
Nadeem sits on many boards and committees, including The Toda Institute, Elijah Academy Board of World Religious Leaders, and American Islamic Congress. He was co-convenor of Alif-Aleph, a groundbreaking Jewish-Muslim initiative, in 2003, and was a founding trustee of The Festival of Muslim Cultures.
He is a key participant and/or adviser on many initiatives and has worked with Muslim, Christian and Jewish leaders including The Rothschild Foundation, The Christian-Muslim Forum, US Embassy London, Justitia et Pax (helping coordinate the Interreligious Leaders Declaration on Human Rights in 2008), and Rights and Humanity.
Nadeem’s published essays / conference presentations include a chapter in ‘Radicalism - A European Perspective’ (ed. Tahir Abbas, Edinburgh University Press, 2006); Human Rights and Islamic Civil Society, Princeton, 2003; a major essay on the Iraqi Marshlands for the Carnegie Endowment (New York, 2003); and on Kashmir in Arkansas Democrat Gazette (2000). His latest published essay appears in Institute Series 12 - Words in Action, for The Heythrop Institute, Heythrop College, University of London (June 2009). Between 1995 and 2000, Nadeem was a broadcaster for BBC Radio 4’s flagship, Thought for the Day programme as well as Radio 2’s Pause for Thought.
He has also advised on numerous governmental, academic and NGO consultations, and was a senior adviser and speechwriter to Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (2000-2005), working on policy, strategy, humanitarian affairs, human rights, and governance. Most notably, he represented HRH Prince Hassan on the Dialogue of Civilizations process as chief representative, contributing to the final report of the UN Eminent Persons Group of which HRH was a member.
Nadeem is a keen independent documentary filmmaker, having produced ‘Jazz Bridges: Music Without Frontiers’ (selected by TOMI film festival in 2009, August Lebanon’ – completing September 2009 and ‘Ten Days’, (selected by four international film festivals).