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“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

About Rumana Hashem

Rumana Hashem is a sociologist and a secular women’s rights activist from Bangladesh who is opposed to prejudice of all kinds. Currently based at the Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at University of East London, she has a PhD in Gender and Armed Conflict.

Articles by Rumana Hashem

This week's editor

Rosemary Bechler is openDemocracy’s Editor.

Digital Liberties

How to fight for digital human rights?

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Constitutional conventions: best practice

Why every secularist should boycott Trump’s US

Rumana Hashem and Piya Mayenin 12 February 2017

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".

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

Max Farrar and Rumana Hashem 3 December 2015

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