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‘Islamophobia’, identity politics, and free speech
The following is an expanded and updated essay based on Maryam Namazie’s remarks at the launch of Steven…
URGENT: CEMB is facing closure within 90 days
Originally published on the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain website on 7 April 2026 and republished here with…
Iran: Between Bombs and Theocracy
'Beneath the bombs and the theocracy is a society that has repeatedly risen in revolt.'
Women’s Blasphemy and the State
Blasphemous. Corrupt. Apostate. Kafir. These words are always defined from the perspective of the religious. The religious lens…
Iran: On Power, Inheritance, and the Disciplining of Women’s Bodies
This essay responds to critics of my 12 January 2026 Freethinker article ‘Neither turban nor crown but Woman,…
Neither turban nor crown, but Woman, Life, Freedom
A new nationwide wave of protest has spread across Iran since 28 December 2025. Initially triggered by acute…
On Israel, Hamas, and Refusing the Binary
Reflections on the 2025 FiLiA Conference and Fringe Event Controversy
Abortion and Bodily Autonomy: Restriction, Repression, and Feminist Fightback
'The struggle for women’s bodily autonomy is not peripheral to human freedom but at its core.'
For Mahsa Jina Amini and Woman, Life, Freedom: Summoning an Age of Humanity in an Age of Hate
This is the slightly amended text of a speech given on 14 September 2025 at a commemorative event…
Freedom of expression lives where offence begins: In defence of Ibtissame Betty Lachgar
'To criminalise dissent is to give ideas rights they cannot have, whilst stripping individuals of rights they must.'
It is time to recognize sex apartheid as a crime against humanity
The 69th session of the Commission on the Status of Women is taking place at the United Nations…
No Hijab Day, 1 February: Confronting Misogyny
A call to action for No Hijab Day.
Feminism and religion are incompatible
This is an edited version of Maryam Namazie’s contribution to a Cambridge Union debate: ‘This House Believes Feminism…
Confronting identity politics, a breeding ground for division and dehumanisation
This is an edited version of Maryam Namazie’s keynote address made at the National Secular Society conference on…