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Maajid Nawaz was born in Essex to a British Pakistani family. In his teens he joined an extreme Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir and this led to his arrest in Egypt in December 2001. He was in prison for 5 years but his life was turned round when he read ‘Animal Farm’. On returning to the UK, he became the founding chairman of Quilliam, a counter extremist think tank that seeks to challenge the narratives of Islamist extremists.