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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Resident Fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali

An outspoken defender of women’s rights in Islamic societies, Ms. Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia. She escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992, and served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. In parliament, she worked on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society, and on defending the rights of women in Dutch muslim society. In 2004, together with director Theo van Gogh, she made Submission, a film about the oppression of women in conservative Islamic cultures. The airing of the film on Dutch television resulted in the assassination of van Gogh by an Islamic extremist.  At AEI, Ms. Hirsi Ali will be researching the relationship between the West and Islam; women’s rights in Islam; violence against women propagated by religious and cultural arguments; and Islam in Europe.

 

Professional Experience

-Member of parliament, VVD (People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy), the Netherlands, 2003-2006

-Researcher, Wiardi Beckman Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2001-2002

-Interpreter and adviser, Office of Intercultural Communication, Leiden, the Netherlands, 1995-2001

 

Education
M.A., Leiden University, the Netherlands

Articles and Short Publications
Cut and Run Won't Do
Symposium
Does the Free Market Corrode Moral Character?
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Books
Infidel
The Caged Virgin
Events
Transatlantic Law Forum: Citizenship in Europe and the United States
The Suicide of Reason
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Media Appearance
Defiant Infidel
Speaking Engagements
Coming to America
The Role of Journalism Today
Ladies First
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Related Links
Media Respond to Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel

Research Areas
Islam and the West
Islam and women
Islam in Europe
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Contact Information
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
American Enterprise Institute
 1150 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC  20036
Assistant: 202-862-5897
Fax: 202-862-5924
E-mail: ayaan.hirsiali@aei.org
Latest Book
Infidel
In her remarkable and unflinchingly honest memoir, the author recounts her transformation from what she terms, "the world of faith to the world of reason." [Read More]