Ibrahim Syed

Exactly 20 years ago tomorrow (1st Sep 2006) I started my first teaching job at the then, Park High School in the centre of Birkenhead. This photo was taken in summer 2009 with my Y11 class. Teaching is a wonderful profession, and is immensely rewarding. #reminiscing

This is my paternal grandfather. In 1957, aged 28, he moved from Sylhet (now Bangladesh) to Birmingham to work at the Birmingham Small Arms factory. He joined his brother, who had already settled in Birmingham after serving as a sailor in the British Merchant Navy during the 1940

Nuance, generalisation, and the forces that seek to divide us. Things are never that simple. People are people, good and evil exists within all kinds, colours and religions. So let’s not generalise and see people as people and not their religion or colour.

Jewish-Muslim Summit: Talking about the difficult stuff.

Productive meeting with senior representatives from Crown Prosecution Service for Merseyside and Cheshire. They are keen to reassure Muslim communities that the CPS takes hate crime very seriously and also on the work they have done to bring to justice the instigators of riots.

Following the riots a couple of our longstanding non-Muslim team members at Wirral Deen Centre, Andy and Neil wanted to host an afternoon tea at Andy’s house, where Neil’s wife made the cakes. This is friendship across different faith, backgrounds and cultures. This is community

Feels like @10DowningStreet is listening to how we are feeling @Keir_Starmer