Rana Ahmad
Rana Ahmad or
Rana Ahmad Hamd (born 1985) is the
pseudonym of a
Syrian women's rights activist and
ex-Muslim born in
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia, who fled to
Germany in 2015, where she currently resides. Her flight, assisted by
Atheist Republic and
Faith to Faithless, was partially documented in the ''Vice News'' documentary ''Leaving Islam: Rescuing Ex-Muslims'' (2017). Her 2018 German-language autobiography ''Frauen dürfen hier nicht träumen'' ('Women Aren't Allowed to Dream Here'), also translated into French, and became a
Spiegel Top-10-best-seller. In 2017, Ahmad founded the
Cologne-based
Atheist Refugee Relief with the goal of providing 'practical assistance to refugees without religion and to improve their living conditions through political work.'
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