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Hijab is sexism not anti-racism

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 8, 2016
  • 0 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, hijab
Aliaa Elmahdy, the human rights activist under received death threats for being "the naked blogger" from the Arab spring in Egypt, who since then got asylum in Sweden and who made several discussed Femen actions, today announced her topless message at the hijab-event in Fiitja.
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I will be nude, I will protest, and I will challenge you to your core!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 23, 2014
  • 17 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Amina Sboui, nude protest
All religions have a disturbing view of the female and her body. Islam is no different.  Given that Islamism – a regressive political movement with state power and political influence in many places – is using Islam as its banner, however, women’s sexuality and bodies are policed and criminalised and misogyny is encouraged and imposed […]
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Nude protest for Intl Women’s Day

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 8, 2014
  • 85 Comments
  • 8 MArch, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Amina Sboui, Maryam Namazie, Meriam Russel, nude protest, Safia Lebdi, Solmaz Vakilpour
Today, 8 March, International Women’s Day, Amina Sboui, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Solmaz Vakilpour, Safia Lebdi, Meriam Russel and myself protested nude in support of women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa at the Louvre in Paris. I didn’t want to just hold the Islamic regime of Iran’s flag so I cut out the […]
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Reminder: Call for submissions for Nude Photo Revolutionaries Calendar

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 14, 2011
  • 5 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy
I just wanted to give everyone an update on the Nude Photo Revolutionaries Calendar in support of Egyptian student, atheist and blogger, Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, 20, who posted nude photos of herself on her blog to show her ‘screams against a society of violence, racism, sexism, sexual harassment and hypocrisy’. As I mentioned before, there […]
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Nude revolutionary calendar in the press

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 7, 2011
  • 1 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy
See today’s International Business Times UK report on the Nude ‘revolutionary’ calendar homage to Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, the naked blogger.
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I say burn the veil

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On December 1, 2011
  • 3 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, veil
The wonderful atheist Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy has called on men to veil in solidarity with women. Men in Iran have done this before as well [see featured photo – man’s T-shirt says: down with patriarchy]. The veil’s oppressive; it’s a form of control. Rather than having men wear it too, we need to […]
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She is… Blasphemy Day by Nesrine

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 22, 2011
  • 5 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, blasphemy
Hassan Radwan just sent in the following translation – It’s not subtitled but this is my translation below – btw the narrator is Nesrin is a Lebanese member of CEMB and bornwithoutreligion is the woman in the video:
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Calling All Nude Photo Revolutionaries

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 22, 2011
  • 14 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Islamism, women
Remember Calendar Girls when a group of women posed nude to raise money for charity? As a follow up to the photo of Israeli women who stripped in solidarity with Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, why not make a calendar of Nude Photo Revolutionaries in homage to Aliaa and also to raise awareness on free […]
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