Sarah Joseph OBE was CEO and Editor of the bygone Muslim lifestyle magazine emel and a commentator on British Muslims.
She converted to Islam at the age of 16 in 1988 after being brought up as a Catholic.
[1] Joseph was awarded an OBE in 2004 for services to "interfaith dialogue and the promotion of women's rights".
[2] In 2006 she was included in the "Muslim Power 100" list in the UK by Carter Anderson.
[3] In 2010 she was listed as one of the "world's 500 most influential Muslims" by Georgetown University's The Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talaal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre of Jordan.