Arab Spring | Maryam Namazie

Impossible not to see

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On March 10, 2013
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Arab Spring, Islamism, liberation, resistance, Secularism, women

Below is my speech at the wonderful International Women’s Day event in Frankfurt. • 15 year old Malala Yousefzai shot by the Taliban for defending girls’ education. • Egyptian atheist Aliaa Magda ElMahdy’s nude scream against misogyny and hypocrisy. • The outrage over the assassination of socialist leader Chokri Belaid in Tunisia. • The “Harlem […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On February 7, 2012
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Arab Spring

The below is a section of Maryam’s speech On the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa at a meeting in Stockholm, Sweden on 4 February 2012: The ‘Arab Spring’ represents a period of revolutions. It’s exciting, isn’t it? People in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya… have rise up against dictatorships. It’s a period of […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On February 1, 2012
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Arab Spring, Sharia

I will be speaking in Sheffield on Sharia law today. Details: 1 February 2012 Sheffield: Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a meeting organised by the Sheffield Humanist Society on Wednesday 1st February at The Friends Meeting House, 10 St James Street, Sheffield S1 2EW from 6:30 to 8:00pm. The talk will be on “One […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On November 18, 2011
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Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Arab Spring, Sharia

The disgusting Islamists have taken legal action against Aliaa Magda Elmahdy and her blogger boyfriend for ‘violating morals, inciting indecency and insulting Islam’.

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On November 4, 2011
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99%, Arab Spring, Democracy

Here’s the edited transcript of a TV International interview I did with Hamid Taqvaee on the Arab Spring, broadcast during October 2011. He’s leader of the Worker-communist Party of Iran. Interview with Hamid Taqvaee Maryam Namazie: Is the Arab Spring linked to the global 99% movement? Hamid Taqvaee: Of course it is linked! First of […]

Impossible not to see

Religion in power is the end of any form of democratic politics

Sheffield and Stockholm

Aliaa is not obscene; you are!

On the ‘Arab Spring’ and its links with the 99% movement – A must read!