This piece was first published in The Freethinker.
Segregation was humiliating. Just the reality of signs that said you couldn’t use front doors or you couldn’t use this water fountain implied that you were…
PRESS RELEASE
13 OCTOBER 2017
In a landmark judgment handed down today, the Court of Appeal found that ‘separate but equal’ treatment on the basis of gender at a school can amount to unlawful sex…
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The International Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Expression, the largest gathering of ex-Muslims in history, was held during 22-24 July 2017 in London.
Over 70 notable speakers from 30 countries…
Join protest at Court of Appeal hearing on 11 and 12 July 2017 at 9.30am at Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL.
Pack out the public gallery in the court…
Gender segregation in education
School X - a co-educational, Muslim voluntary aided school in the UK - segregates its pupils based on their gender. From the age of 9 to 16, boys and girls…
This is my letter to you, not you the racist or Islamist but you who I should call friend: I Accuse. Published in sister-hood, 27 June 2017.
Spanish Translation
This is my letter to you.
Not you,…
This month marks five years since the Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi was arrested in Jeddah in June 2012. Almost two years later, in May 2014, Badawi was sentenced to ten years in…
Below is my monthly column for The Freethinker entitled: Religion is fundamentally patriarchal and anti-woman, 25 May 2016
As US suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said:
You may go over the world and you will find that every…
Our spokesperson, Maryam Namazie, was invited by Dabran Platform to speak at the Founding Congress of Enlightenment Feminism in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan (photos below). She spoke about Islam and Islamism as the greatest stumbling blocks for women’s emancipation and…
The Freethinker interviews Maryam Namazie and Marieme Helie Lucas ahead of the International Conference on Freedom of Conscience and Expression in the 21 Century scheduled to take place in London between July 22…
LifestyleBooks
The Enemy Within: A Tale of Muslim Britain by Sayeeda Warsi - review
A blinkered view of Islamism, says Maryam Namazie
Evening Standard
6 April 2016
Sayeeda Warsi’s new book catalogues some of the hypocrisy and double…
My latest piece in The Freethinker to mark International Women’s Day.
Wherever Islamism gains power and influence, it comes for women first. And it’s always a sign of worse to come, hence the saying:…