Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is a French-Algerian imam. He was born in Algiers in 1977, and as a teenager moved to France with his family. Aged 21, already HIV positive, he came out as gay to his family. In 2010 he founded the organisation Muslim Homosexuals in France, and in 2012 set up Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque in Paris. He now lives with his husband in Marseilles, where he founded Celem, an institute to raise awareness of progressive values within the Muslim world.

'Zahed’s is a moving, courageous voice, but he also acknowledges the isolation of his position in an Islamic world where attitudes to sexuality have only hardened in recent years. But it is for this very reason that Muslims and others alike need to listen to him’ - The Observer

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is a French-Algerian imam. He was born in Algiers in 1977, and as a teenager moved to France with his family. Aged 21, already HIV positive, he came out as gay to his family. In 2010 he founded the organisation Muslim Homosexuals in France, and in 2012 set up Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque in Paris. He now lives with his husband in Marseilles, where he founded Celem, an institute to raise awareness of progressive values within the Muslim world.

'Zahed’s is a moving, courageous voice, but he also acknowledges the isolation of his position in an Islamic world where attitudes to sexuality have only hardened in recent years. But it is for this very reason that Muslims and others alike need to listen to him’ - The Observer

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is a French-Algerian imam. He was born in Algiers in 1977, and as a teenager moved to France with his family. Aged 21, already HIV positive, he came out as gay to his family. In 2010 he founded the organisation Muslim Homosexuals in France, and in 2012 set up Europe’s first gay-friendly mosque in Paris. He now lives with his husband in Marseilles, where he founded Celem, an institute to raise awareness of progressive values within the Muslim world.

'Zahed’s is a moving, courageous voice, but he also acknowledges the isolation of his position in an Islamic world where attitudes to sexuality have only hardened in recent years. But it is for this very reason that Muslims and others alike need to listen to him’ - The Observer