Amanda Figueras (born 1978) is a Spanish journalist and writer who worked for El Mundo for more than a decade. After becoming a Muslim, she has written about her faith, and is known for her 2018 book Why Islam: my life as a woman, European and Muslim.
Amanda Figueras was born in Vilafranca del Penedès, Barcelona in 1978.
She holds a degree in journalism and studied for a year at a Portuguese university, in line with the Erasmus Programme. She has also undertaken informal studies of Islamic culture.
Figueras worked for around ten years as a journalist for Spanish daily El Mundo, where she established the European Affairs section.
She had not had a religion before, but started practising Islam after a personal journey which she said began in the aftermath of the 2004 Madrid train bombings, when she was working at El Mundo. She wrote a book called Why Islam: my life as a woman, European and Muslim, published in 2018.
In 2015, Figueras began working as a project manager at Foro Abraham for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue. She writes articles for several publications, including The Islamic Monthly.
Figueras is a Fellow of both the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the international KAICIID Dialogue Centre.
Figueras was living between Madrid and Cairo. She is married to an Egyptian man and they have a son.