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.

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

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