On December 27, we remember courage of Vida Movahed, girls of Revolution Street and 4 decades of struggle against compulsory veiling laws in #Iran. A…
حجاب: جلوگیری از تحمیل عرف
این مقاله اولین بار در نشریه انگلیسی زبان ’رهایی کارگران’ در دفاع از ممنوعیت حجاب کودکان در ۲۷ نوامبر ۲۰۱۹ منتشر شد. English مریم نمازی…
Pret-A-Patriarchy – on “modest” fashion
The below was published in The New European on 31 May 2018 “Modest” fashion is a fast growing industry with companies like Dolce & Gabbana,…
The Disappeared: The veil and the erasure of the female body
This was published in The Freethinker today. When I was 12 years old, soon after the Islamists took power in Iran, their thugs came to…
A female earthquake by “stealth”
My editorial in May issue of Fitnah’s “Unveiled” (Full Issue available here) Tehranˈs Interim Friday Prayers Leader Hojjatoeslam Kazem Sedighi recently said: “In certain towns and cities,…
We should not abandon secularism
WE SHOULD NOT ABANDON SECULARISM Unveiled: A Publication of Fitnah – Movement for Women’s Liberation December 2013, Volume 1, Issue 3 Editor: Maryam Namazie. Design:…
Unveiled: Neither Veil nor Submission
Fitnah’s November issue of Unveiled (Volume 1, Issue 2) has now been published and can be found here: fitnah-UNVEILED-nov13. editor: Maryam Namazie design by: Kiran Opal…
You just don’t get it!
A group of women have set up a Facebook page called Muslim women against FEMEN…. Muslimah Pride Day. They just don’t get it (or obviously…
No to hejab, indeed!
Iranian women’s rights campaigners and members of the Worker-communist Party of Iran staged a topless protest against the veil and Sharia in Stockholm in the…
Cover your damn eyes
Did you hear the report about the mullah who told a girl to cover herself properly whilst on his way to the mosque in a…