He studied Government & History at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he was awarded the James Joll Prize for his work on conversion to Islam in Britain. More recently Ahmed has produced Inside IS: Ten Days in the Islamic State, a documentary about Jürgen Todenhöfer’s perilous trip to the so-called Caliphate, and worked closely with BAFTA-winning writer/director Peter Kosminsky on an ambitious upcoming drama about British Muslims signing up to fight for ISIS. Blessed are the Strangers is his first documentary