Meredith Tax has been a writer and political activist since the late 1960s, She was a member of Bread and Roses, founding chair of International PEN’s Women Writers’ Committee, founding President of Women’s WORLD, and a co-founder of the Centre for Secular Space. Her latest books are Double Bind: The Muslim Right, the Anglo-American Left, and Universal Human Rights and A Road Unforeseen: Women Fight the Islamic State