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Niloofar Mashhadizadeh

Niloofar Mashhadizadeh (a pseudonym) is an Afghan humanist in North America who writes about queer and Muslim issues and identifies as an atheist.

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What’s Honorable? A queer ex-Muslim on what plagues Afghan and Muslim communities in the diaspora

15 June 2016

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