{"id":1184,"date":"2021-06-28T09:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T09:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2021-06-28T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T10:49:07","slug":"dr-sohag-nafis-saleh-principal-teaching-fellow-and-phase-1-digital-development-lead-faculty-of-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/2021\/06\/28\/dr-sohag-nafis-saleh-principal-teaching-fellow-and-phase-1-digital-development-lead-faculty-of-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sohag Nafis Saleh, Principal Teaching Fellow and Phase 1 Digital Development Lead, Faculty of Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"section-lLM9Hfi86M\" class=\"Theme-Section Theme-TextOverMediaSection Theme-Section-Position-2 DisplayContainerHeight--flex Theme-Section-Layout--Full Theme-Section-Custom Theme-BackgroundColor-0 Theme-ForegroundColor-16 Theme-Section-HasOverlay\">\n<div class=\"Layout FullSize--fullHeight Theme-Layer-TextBlock Layer--one\">\n<div class=\"Layout__flex--xcenter Layout__flex--ycenter Theme-Layer-TextBlock-Container\" data-scrollymoly-basis=\"true\">\n<div class=\"Theme-Layer-TextBlock-Inner DisplayContainer--heightBasis\">\n<h3 class=\"Theme-SubTitle Theme-TextSize-xxsmall\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1185\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/files\/2021\/06\/21-05-Imperial-People_Twitter_Shifting-the-Lens_Sohag-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<h3><strong><em>Part of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/activities\/seed-fund\/shifting-the-lens\/?utm_source=imperialpeople&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=stl-21&amp;utm_content=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shifting the Lens: A celebration of cultural diversity at Imperial<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"Theme-Layer-BodyText-Dropcap\">&#8220;When I was four or five, I moved from Leeds to Keighley, a small town about twenty miles away. It was a challenging place to be. At the time, the National Front had a strong presence there. I didn\u2019t encounter it a lot, but the fear was always there, and there were places around town to avoid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;My family is Muslim, however, me and my two elder sisters went to Catholic school. It wasn\u2019t a choice based on religion, but rather on how we as a working-class family could get the best quality state education available \u2013 something my Mum felt our local Catholic school was best at providing for us. I wasn\u2019t properly confirmed or anything, but I was an altar boy!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;There were other schools in the area that had more Asian people and also there was a Muslim community. But I was kind of kept away from that. So for me, I didn\u2019t have much of a cultural or religious identity growing up. I saw culture and religion as being hand-in-hand; I saw them as the same thing. My school life was this strange dichotomy of being Muslim and Catholic, but I found it really helpful because it made me learn about different religions. Quite often, when people think about religions, it\u2019s from the outside, but here I was an outsider in two communities \u2013 two very similar monotheistic religions. But people tend to focus on the differences, I guess.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/stories\/shifting-the-lens-sohag\/?utm_source=imperialpeople&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=stl-21&amp;utm_content=sohag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Sohag&#8217;s profile<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of\u00a0Shifting the Lens: A celebration of cultural diversity at Imperial &#8220;When I was four or five, I moved from Leeds to Keighley, a small town about twenty miles away. It was a challenging place to be. At the time, the National Front had a strong presence there. I didn\u2019t encounter it a lot, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[294815],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1189,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions\/1189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/imperial-people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}