Sharmeena Begum (Bengali: শারমিনা বেগম; born 1999) is a British schoolgirl from Bethnal Green Academy who left home to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in December 2014. In February 2015, her school friends Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and Kadiza Sultana joined her in Syria. Begum is one of the youngest British teenagers to Jion ISIL.Begum was born to Bangladeshi parents in Tower Hamlets, East London, England in 1999. She was largely brought up by her mother Shahnaz Begum until 2007, when her father, Mohammad Uddin, moved to Britain. She grew up in a two-bedroom council flat in Bethnal Green. Begum is her parents' only child. Wikipedia