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I'm sitting in the ambassador's residence in Cairo, in the garden, at the end of the most hectic four days that I've ever had, I think.

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We've done four days of meeting all sorts of different people, we've discussed Muslims in the UK, the issues that we face, counter-radicalisation with people that really know what they're talking about here in Egypt, and some of the delegates have an incredible knowledge of this, and are very esteemed authors.

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And there's little old me, I converted to Islam three years ago, and I'm still on my journey, and I've learnt a lot by coming here, but some of the questions that I've had have been quite basic, and I think one of the positive things about coming here has been the fact that I was unlike what they expected to see, white, indigenous, British, converted to Islam, not the typical picture.

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So that was a great thing to do in terms of showing people outside of the UK that Islam is a religion at the end of the day, and it doesn't have a uniform or a face.