Myriam François

She is a regular presenter at high-profile events, including the Mayor of London's Eid Festival 2019 and the London Modest Fashion Festival 2018.

Her most recent documentary, City of Refuge, examined the plight of Syrian refugees in Lebanon. It aired on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

She was a judge for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction books.

François completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2017. Her doctoral work was a study of Islamic political movements in Morocco. She also holds an MA with honours in Middle East politics from Georgetown University, and a BA from the University of Cambridge in social and political science.

In 2017, she presented Channel 4's Dispatches episode "The Truth about Muslim Marriages", exploring Islamic marriage in the United Kingdom. The programme was nominated for an Asian Media Award in 2018, in the category of Best Investigation.

She was a programme researcher and presenter at the BBC. In 2015 she presented a BBC One documentary on the genocide at Srebrenica.

She was a correspondent for the Huffington Post (2014–2015), where she broke a headline story on an exclusive 36-page document written by alleged al-Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. She has appeared on Newsnight (2009), 4thought.tv (2011), BBC News (2010), Crosstalk (2010), BBC Radio (2012), Sky News and documentaries including Divine Women, presented by Bettany Hughes.

She has given guest lectures at Harvard University (2014), the University of Birmingham (2014), and Luther College (2015) in Decorah, Iowa, and presented an annual guest lecture at Kingston University, in England, in 2012–2014. She spoke at the 2015 HowTheLightsGetsIn at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.

She worked as a programme producer on Al Jazeera English's Head to Head (2013–?).

François chose to stop wearing a hijab in the 2010s. She said that the subsequent lack of Islamophobia due to her being a white woman in western dress made her feel enmeshed in white privilege. Nevertheless, she did not decide to return to the hijab. François's father is French and her mother is Irish.

She was an assistant editor and features writer at Emel magazine (2008–2009). She translated Asma Lamrabet's book which won the English Pen Award. She was a regular guest on BBC One's The Big Questions from 2008 to 2011 and on Sunday Morning Live in 2015.

In 2003, at the age of 21 years, François converted to Islam after graduating from Cambridge. At the time, she was a sceptical Roman Catholic. She rejects the use of the words "convert" and "revert" as "exclusionary", describing herself as "just Muslim".

Francois began acting in films at age 12, in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility (1995), in which she played Margaret Dashwood.

Myriam François (born and legally named Emilie Siobhan Geoghegan François; December 1982; formerly known as Myriam François-Cerrah) is an English-French writer, broadcaster, and academic focusing on issues related to Islam, France, and the Middle East.