Shabana Mahmood (Urdu: شبانہ محمود; born 17 September 1980) is a British Labour Party politician and barrister, who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham, Ladywood since the May 2010 general election.Mahmood was born and brought up in Birmingham. Her family roots are from Mirpur, in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, as stated on her own personal webpage. She graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford, where she studied law and was the president of the Junior Common Room.In the 2010 general election, Mahmood was elected for Birmingham Ladywood with a majority of 10,105. Along with Rushanara Ali and Yasmin Qureshi who were also elected in 2010, Mahmood became one of the UK's first female Muslim MPs. Wikipedia