Maryam Namazie is an Iranian-born writer and activist. She is the Spokesperson of One Law for All and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.
Events
CEMB MEETUPS AND SUPPORT GROUPS WILL BE ONLINE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC.
Our meet-ups will now be livestreamed on both Facebook or Youtube. The relevant link will be posted in the event post so please go to the event or meeting you want to join to find the relevant link.
Thanks and see you soon online!
Current Month
october
05oct6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Five person 90 minute support group sessions are led by Savin Bapir Tardy
Time
(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
06oct6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Five person 90 minute support group sessions are led by Savin Bapir Tardy
Time
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
20oct7:00 pm8:00 pmApostasy and Asylum with Ana Gonzalez
Event Details
20 October, 7-8:00pm, Online Join it Live Or Watch it Here. Join us for our monthly meet-up on Apostasy and Asylum with Ana Gonzalez. Meet-ups are run by Ali Malik. Ana Gonzalez
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20 October, 7-8:00pm, Online
Join it Live Or Watch it Here.
Join us for our monthly meet-up on Apostasy and Asylum with Ana Gonzalez. Meet-ups are run by Ali Malik.
Ana Gonzalez is a solicitor and partner at Wilson Solicitors. She practises in immigration and asylum work, and has interests in human rights and European Law. Ana is an internationally recognised expert in gender and sexuality-based asylum claims as well as having extensive expertise in representing individuals from vulnerable, marginalised client groups such as victims of human trafficking, apostates and transgender individuals. Ana is frequently instructed by Local Authorities all over the Greater London area to act for children and adults in their care.
Ana is praised in Chambers and Partners for her “constant attention to cases, leading client care and real knowledge of the law.” She “continues to stand out for significant work on human trafficking cases, often raising new country guidance points” (2012). “She is a stand-out practitioner in the field of refugee law, with particular expertise in trafficking cases” (2014). She “is very experienced, passionate and has very good judgement” (2016). Ana has been described “the epitome of a fighter who cares very deeply about her clients,” in the 2019 edition.
She practises in all aspects of immigration and asylum work, and has a specialist interest in European law. Ana has extensive experience of litigating in the higher courts, having had numerous cases over the years in the Administrative Court/Upper Tribunal and Court of Appeal. She has also conducted cases in the Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg.
If it is your first time attending the monthly meet-up, please email hello@ex-muslim.org.uk to register.
Talks will be followed by Q&A, drinks and snacks. Ana will also do one on one sessions with asylum cases.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
november
02nov6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Five person 90 minute support group sessions are led by Savin Bapir Tardy
Time
(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
03nov6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Five person 90 minute support group sessions are led by Savin Bapir Tardy
Time
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
14novAll DayCancelled due to Covid - Night of the Freethinker 2020, Ghent, Belgium
Event Details
14 November 2020, Ghent, Belgium Night of the Freethinker 2020
Event Details
14 November 2020, Ghent, Belgium
Night of the Freethinker 2020
Time
All Day (Saturday)
17nov7:00 pm8:30 pmOnline Meetup on The Ex-Muslim Movement with Maryam Namazie
Event Details
17 November, 7-8:00pm See it Live here. Join us for our monthly meet-up on The Ex-Muslim Movement with Maryam Namazie. Meet-ups are run by Ali Malik.
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17 November, 7-8:00pm
Join us for our monthly meet-up on The Ex-Muslim Movement with Maryam Namazie. Meet-ups are run by Ali Malik.
She is on the International Advisory Board of the Raif Badawi Foundation for Freedom and Euromind; a Laureate of the International Academy of Humanism, National Secular Society Honorary Associate; Honorary Associate of Rationalist International; Emeritus Member of the Secular Humanist League of Brazil and a Patron of Pink Triangle Trust.
Maryam and the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain were featured in a 2016 film by Deeyah Khan called Islam’s Non-Believers. She was also a character in DV8 Physical Theatre’s Can We Talk About This?, which deals with freedom of speech, censorship and Islam.
She was joint winner of the 2019 Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize; awarded the 2017 Henry H. Zumach Freedom From Religious Fundamentalism award; 2016 International Secularism (Laicite) Prize from the Comité Laïcité République and was honoured by the National Secular Society for her campaigning work defending free speech at universities (2016) despite attempts at barring her by Student Unions or Islamic Society efforts to intimidate and cancel her talks. She was also awarded Atheist of the Year by Kazimierz Lyszczynski (2014); Journalist of the Year at the Dods Women in Public Life Awards (2013); selected one of the top 45 women of the year by Elle magazine Quebec (2007); one of 2006’s most intriguing people by DNA, awarded the National Secular Society’s Secularist of the Year Award (2005); selected ‘Iranian of the Year’ by Iranian.com readers (1997 and 1998); International Rescue Committee medal recipient (1988); and received the Julia B. Friedman Humanitarian Award (1987).
The Islamic regime of Iran’s media outlets has called Namazie ‘immoral and corrupt’ and did an ‘exposé’ on her entitled Meet this anti-religion woman. In 2019, the Islamic regime’s intelligence service did a TV programme, where Namazie was featured as “anti-God”.
She published The Woman’s Quran with the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain and organised the first ever Apostasy Day on 22 August and Atheist Day on 21 March with an international coalition of ex-Muslim groups. She also organised the largest gatherings of ex-Muslims in history, including at De Balie’s Celebrating Dissent; led a topless protest at Pride London in 2017 in defense of LGBT rights with placards saying “Allah is Gay” and “LGBT rights are universal”. She also took part in a nude protest in defense of women’s rights in the Middle East and North Africa, initiated a Day to Stand with Bangladesh’s Bloggers and Activists; an International Day to Defend Amina and the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar 2012-2013, founded Iran Solidarity, and helped launch the Manifesto for a Free and Secular Middle East and North Africa.
She has spoken and written numerous articles on women’s rights issues, free expression, Islamism, and secularism. She has co-authored Sharia Law in Britain: A Threat to One Law for All and Equal Rights (One Law for All, June 2010), Enemies Not Allies: The Far-Right (One Law for All, August 2011), and The Political and Legal Status of Apostates in Islam (CEMB, August 2017). She also has an essay entitled ‘When the Hezbollah came to my School’ in 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists (Wiley-Blackwell, October 2009) and is featured in A Better Life: A Hundred Atheists Speak out on Joy and Meaning in a World Without God (2013) amongst others.
Talk will be followed by Q&A.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
25novAll DayNew Film on Ex-Muslim women screening and discussion
Event Details
25 November 2020, Online Screening of CEMB's Film on Ex-Muslim Women followed by a discussion More details to follow.
Event Details
25 November 2020, Online Screening of CEMB’s Film on Ex-Muslim Women followed by a discussion
More details to follow.
Time
All Day (Wednesday)
30nov6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Five person 90 minute support group sessions are led by Savin Bapir Tardy
Time
(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
december
01dec6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Five person 90 minute support group sessions are led by Savin Bapir Tardy. Larger 15 group sessions are led by Marwa Wain.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
15dec7:00 pm8:00 pmOnline Meetup: Speaker to be Announced
Event Details
15 December, 7-8:00pm Live Youtube Link will be posted here closer to event. Join us for our monthly meet-up. Meet-ups are run by Ali Malik.
Event Details
15 December, 7-8:00pm
Live Youtube Link will be posted here closer to event.
Join us for our monthly meet-up. Meet-ups are run by Ali Malik.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
15dec8:00 pm10:00 pmEnd-Year Drinks on Zoom
Event Details
15 December 2020, 8-10pm Please join CEMB for our end-year drinks on Zoom following our last meet-up of the year. Please RSVP by emailing hello@ex-muslim.org.uk.
Event Details
15 December 2020, 8-10pm
Please join CEMB for our end-year drinks on Zoom following our last meet-up of the year.
Please RSVP by emailing hello@ex-muslim.org.uk.
Time
(Tuesday) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
january
04jan6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Time
(Monday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
05jan6:30 pm8:00 pmOnline Support Group
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam. If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of
Event Details
Join us for our monthly support group, to talk about issues that still affect us after leaving Islam.
If you would like to come along, please email exmuslimcouncil@gmail.com for details of virtual support group meeting.
Time
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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