About Mona Siddiqui
Mona Siddiqui (born 3 May 1963) is a British academic. She is Professor of Religion and Society at King's College London, a member of the Commission on Scottish Devolution and a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. She is also a regular contributor to Thought for the Day, Sunday and The Moral Maze on BBC Radio 4, and to The Times, The Scotsman, The Guardian, and Sunday Herald. == Early life == Siddiqui was born in Karachi, Pakistan. The family moved to England in 1965 when she was two years old. Her father was a psychiatrist and moved to England to carry out post-graduate work at Cambridge. His work eventually took the family to Huddersfield when he gained a substantive job. They lived in four successive houses in Huddersfield, moving partly because the family expanded from four to six, and finally into a 1930s detached house in a relatively prosperous area near the town centre. The household was very literary and there were many books in the house. Urdu was generally spoken at home, and so the children became bilingual.
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