Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, the author's story tells how a bright little girl evolved out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western ...

(“Infidel” by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Free Press, 353 pages, $26.) She was born in Somalia in 1969, and when she was 22 her father set up an arranged marriage for her to a Somali man she had met briefly and ...

In her memoir, Infidel, Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes about her life as a Muslim member of the Dutch Parliament and an outspoken critic of Islamic culture's treatment of women. Her film ...

Feb. 6, 2007 — -- Civil war, female genital mutilation, brutal beatings, an adolescence spent as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life living in four troubled, ...

Tumultuous, to say the least. But before she was catapulted into the maelstrom of European debates about multiculturalism, immigration, and secularization, Hirsi Ali was already living a tumultuous ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. When Ayaan Hirsi Ali renounced Islam for atheism, her conversion made her a global star. In the wake of ...