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Impossible not to see

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On March 10, 2013
  • 0 Comments
  • 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 […]
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Religion in power is the end of any form of democratic politics

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 7, 2012
  • 3 Comments
  • 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 […]
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Sheffield and Stockholm

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 1, 2012
  • 8 Comments
  • 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 […]
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Aliaa is not obscene; you are!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 18, 2011
  • 17 Comments
  • 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’.
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On the ‘Arab Spring’ and its links with the 99% movement – A must read!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 4, 2011
  • 2 Comments
  • 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 […]
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