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  • Celebrating Dissent Oslo 2024 Schedule

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    Draft and Subject to Change Saturday 31 August 09:00-10:00 Registration with Refreshments 10:00-10:30        Opening Plenary: A tribute to Blasphemous Women and Shabana Rehman MCs Fariborz Pooya, Veedu Vidz and Zara Kay: Welcome Morten Guldburg: ‘Celebrating Dissent and Supporting Ex-Muslims’ Shakeel Rehman: ‘A Tribute to Shabana: The Importance of Equality for Peace’ Maryam Namazie: ‘Defying Boundaries:…

  • Celebrating Dissent Oslo 2024 Contributor Biographies

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    Contributor Biographies: Shabana Rehman was a renowned comedian and social commentator. She was Director of Født Fri (Born Free) Foundation and a performance artist and human and animal rights advocate of Norwegian with Pakistani descent. Shabana entered the stage in Oslo, Norway in 2000. In the following years, she quickly built a reputation for groundbreaking and…

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    Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain, One Law for All and Maryam Namazie have been organising conferences since 2008 in order to defend freethought, free expression, universal rights and secularism and oppose Islamism, fundamentalisms and bigotry. Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain was established in June 2007 to break the taboo that comes with leaving Islam, highlight…