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2019 Shortlist Announced, Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize, 3 October 2019

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On October 3, 2019
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2019 Shortlist Announced, Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize, 3 October 2019 We have a fantastic shortlist for the inaugural joint Emma Humphreys and Centre for Women’s Justice awards. Please join us in congratulating all our nominees: Afsana Lachaux has spent the past five years campaigning for women’s access to justice. After having to flee Dubai, and whilst […]

Stand with the witches, heretics and blasphemers, sister-hood Interview with Maryam Namazie

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On September 18, 2019
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Interview with Maryam Namazie, sister-hood Part 1: 10 September 2019 Part 2: 18 September 2019 Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born writer and activist. She is the Spokesperson for Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation, One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain. She hosts a weekly television programme in Persian and English […]

De Balie #CelebratingDissent Festival was an Astounding Success

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On September 16, 2019
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The epic ‘Celebrating Dissent’ Festival took place between 30 August -1 September in Amsterdam, a collaboration between the prestigious art and debate institute De Balie and Maryam Namazie. Consisting of a mixture of intense, probing conversations, comedy, art, poetry and dance performances, films, lectures and protest, the weekend was an education in the issues facing […]

Neither God nor Master – FEMEN Goddesses Series by Jenny Wenhammar

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On September 12, 2019
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From Jenny Wenhammar Portrait Series on Femen Goddesses on display at De Balie #CelebratingDissent Festival in Amsterdam during 30 August – 1 September 2019. Here Jenny explains the portrait: Maryam Namazie has challenged the Islamist war on women’s bodies covering her naked body with the Islamist flag of Iran ripped apart. Exposing her breast instead […]

Epic Celebrating Dissent Festival in Amsterdam

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On August 6, 2019
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Celebrating Dissent Festival during August 31 – September 1 in Amsterdam at De Balie will be a huge and historic event with nearly 50 contributors from 30 countries worldwide coming together to celebrate freedom through theatre, talks, poetry, film and stand-up comedy. The festival Celebrating Dissent honours freedom: freedom to think differently, freedom not to […]

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2019 Shortlist Announced, Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize, 3 October 2019

Stand with the witches, heretics and blasphemers, sister-hood Interview with Maryam Namazie

De Balie #CelebratingDissent Festival was an Astounding Success

Neither God nor Master – FEMEN Goddesses Series by Jenny Wenhammar

Epic Celebrating Dissent Festival in Amsterdam

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Celebrating Dissent: Interview Marathon part 1: Maryam Namazie

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De Balie Freedom Lecture: Secularism is My Right; Freedom is My Culture

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Secularism: Our lives depend on it, Acceptance Speech for 2016 Laicite Prix

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Islam’s Non Believers, Deeyah Khan’s Film

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