Most people may ask, who is Mustafa Suleyman? Well, Mustafa is a Syrian-born British citizen, about whom Microsoft’s former chief Bill Gates said: “Watch his work, he can become a big name in the world of technology”. If Bill gates said it, then we should also give Mustafa, a second to review what he has achieved.
Mustafa Suleyman’s Syrian father worked as a taxi driver and his English mother as a nurse. He grew up off Caledonian Road in the London Borough of Islington, where he lived with his parents and his two younger brothers.
Suleyman went to Thornhill Primary School, a state school in Islington, followed by Queen Elizabeth’s School, a boys’ grammar school in Barnet. Around that time, he met his DeepMind co-founder, DemisHassabis, through his best friend, Demis’s younger brother. Suleyman initially attended Mansfield College, Oxford, before dropping out at 19.
Mustafa’s practical life began when he started the ‘Muslim Youth Helpline’ with his friends at the age of nineteen. In fact, the situation of the Muslim youth in Britain was very similar to the dictum; “Faith has stopped me, which has drawn me to disbelief”. That is, on the one hand, it was their (Muslim youth’s) compulsion to blend into the British society; on the other hand, they had to avoid the drug culture and immorality. This phone helpline service was for their guidance. Coincidentally, this service started around when 9/11 happened, as a result the incidents of Islamophobia started to increase and the Muslim youth came under more pressure. So in that era this service helped Muslim youth to get out of social isolation. It has become the largest mental health service for........