Experts
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
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"I was never meant to be self-reliant." Read More
November 18, 2007 | In Inspiration & Wisdom
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Hirsi Ali does not try to tell all Muslim women, "You should leave Islam." Rather, she says, they should find their own path. Read More
November 18, 2007 | In Politics & Policy
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Hirsi Ali, on how the Muslim world can learn from the West. Read More
November 18, 2007 | In World
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Born in a newly independent Somalia, Hirsi Ali discusses the clash of East and West. Read More
November 18, 2007 | In History
Ayaan Hirsi-Ali was born in Somalia in 1969 and is a Dutch feminist and political writer. Ali is the daughter of the prominent Somali politican and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. At the age of 8, Ali and her family left Somalia to move to Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, before Ali obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992. Ali is a vocal critic of Islam whose writings deal with what she sees as the subordination of women by the religion. Her work is controversial and Ali has received many death threats, leading her to live under guard. Ali's most famous books include a collection of essays called The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam and Infidel an autobiography published in 2006. Ali now lives in the Netherlands at a secret address.
