Elham Manea (born 1966) is of dual nationalities, Yemeni and Swiss. She works as a Privatdozentin (compares to associate professor in the American System) and specialized on the Middle East, a writer, and a human rights activist. She has been a vocal advocate for the separation of state and religion in Islamic countries, freedoms of expression and belief, and the defence for civil, human, women's, and minorities rights in the Arab MENA region. She is also known as a harsh critic of the ideologies and policies of Islamist movements in its two forms, Societal Islamism and political Islamism (a differentiation she introduced in her forthcoming book Islamic Law in the West: the Essentialists).
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1966 (age 59)
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