I am away from tomorrow until Sunday as I am going to the Worker-communist Party of Iran’s congress. I won’t be blogging for that period as we won’t have personal access to phones and the internet. Try not to miss me too much.

Other things I am doing this month are:

3 March 2012, 10.00am Gent, Belgium Maryam Namazie will be speaking at a debate organised by ‘Freethinking Women’s Organisation of Oost-Vlaanderen’ on ‘Can universal values be other than secular values?’

5 March 2012, 7-8.30pm Maryam Namazie will be speaking on “Sharia law – Divine claims and harsh realities” at the LSE opposite to the Peacock Theatre. The event is organised by the LSESU Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society. A map can be found here.

10-11 March 2012 Manchester, UK Maryam Namazie will be speaking at the QED science and skepticism conference taking place in the Piccadilly Hotel, Manchester on the 10th-11th March 2012 on Secularism, Multiculturalism and Citizenship. For more information, visit here.

19 March 2012 Lyttleton Theatre, National Theatre, London DV8: Can We Talk About This? with Inayat Bunglawala, Maryam Namazie and DV8′s Lloyd Newson Freedom of speech, multiculturalism and Islam; a panel discussion about the issues raised in the new production with guests Inayat Bunglawala, Founder and Chair of Muslims4UK, Maryam Namazie, campaigner and Spokesperson for One Law for All, and DV8′s Artistic Director Lloyd Newson. Tickets £4 (£3 concessions) Running time: 6-7pm For more information and to purchase tickets, click here. By the way it seems I am a character in the production so am excited to see it.

Have a good weekend.