We are delighted to announce the publication of Muslim Women in Britain, which is co-authored by one of our CMF trustees, Prof Cheruvallil-Contractor!

In the book, Sociologist Prof Sariya, a convert to Islam, tells us about the life of another convert to Islam Olive Salaman from the 1960s.
Olive was 15 years old when she moved from a small town in the Rhondda Valley to Cardiff to train as a nurse.
One afternoon, trying to find her way home after a cinema trip, she stopped to ask a young Yemeni sailor for directions.
"We started talking and I think we fell in love there and then," she told a BBC documentary in 1968.
The man she had asked directions of was Ali Salaman, a young chef working in his own cafe in the Tiger Bay area of the city.
After they married in 1937, she converted to Islam, lived through WW2, had 10 children of her own and fostered and adopted many more, becoming known as the "mother of the Cardiff Yemenis" and a legendary anchor of her community.
The couple ran the area's popular Cairo Cafe, which became a hub for community life. Especially after the one and only mosque in Cardiff was bombed in the war they converted part of their restaurant to a mosque !

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tigers-bay-1968/zghmp9q

Hidden histories of British Muslim women revealed - BBC News