Amanda Figueras
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Amanda Figueras (born 1978) is a Spanish journalist and writer who worked for El Mundo for more than a decade. After becoming a Muslim, she has written about her faith, and is known for her 2018 book Why Islam: my life as a woman, European and Muslim.
Amanda Figueras was born in Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona in 1978.[1]
She holds a degree in journalism and studied for a year at a Portuguese university, in line with the Erasmus Programme. She has also undertaken informal studies of Islamic culture.[2]
Career
Figueras worked for around ten years as a journalist for Spanish daily El Mundo, where she established the European Affairs section.[2]
She had not had a religion before, but started practising Islam after a personal journey which she said began in the aftermath of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, when she was working at El Mundo. She wrote a book called Why Islam: my life as a woman, European and Muslim, published in 2018.[3][4]
In 2015, Figueras began working as a project manager at Foro Abraham for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue. She writes articles for several publications, including The Islamic Monthly.[3][5][6]
