Muslim Women – Freedom, Femininity and Faith

Date: Saturday 15 August

Time: 10:30 to 12:00

Cost: £6.00/£4.00

Location: tbc

Chairs: Mandy Rhodes

Participants: Mandy Rhodes, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Smina Akhtar, Ramita Navai

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Join Chair Mandy Rhodes, Editor, Holyrood Magazine and panellists to talk about freedom, femininity and faith for Muslim women, featuring journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown who advocates and reclaims female human rights and freedoms in her book Refusing the Veil. They are joined by British-Iranian journalist Ramita Navai who uncovered a Tehran riddled with contradictions in her book Tehran: City of Lies and Smina Akhtar, Director of Amina, the Muslim Women’s Resource Centre.