Rumana Hashem

Rumana Hashem is a Muslim and secularist women’s rights campaigner, who works at the University of East London as a Bangladeshi sociologist with leave to remain in the UK. She was put on a hit list ta

Has rape become a weapon to silence atheists in Bangladesh?

“There is no place for me in Bangladesh," says a young woman blogger who fled the south Asian country in 2017 following a gang rape.

By Rumana Hashem

/ 5 Jan 2018

Why every secularist should boycott Trump’s US

The Chair of the African Union Commission, has rightly noted, "The country to which many of our people were taken as slaves decides to ban refugees from some of our countries".

By Rumana Hashem and Piya Mayenin

/ 12 Feb 2017

Opposing terror: dilemmas for the left on Islam, Islamophobia and Islamism

The left has struggled to reconcile its opposition to racism with the need to stand up to reactionary Islamism.

By Max Farrar and Rumana Hashem

/ 3 Dec 2015