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    Ayaan Hirsi Ali

    Research Fellow

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and founder of the AHA Foundation. She served as a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006.

    She was born in Mogadishu, Somalia in 1969. As a young child, she was subjected to female genital mutilation. As she grew up...

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Identity Politics And Its Tribal Branches
    A Hoover Virtual Policy Briefing with Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Identity Politics and Its Tribal Branches Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 11AM PT/ 2PM ET.
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    How Do You Solve A Problem Like Sharia?

    Research | Articles | by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Thursday, February 16, 2017

    [Subscription Required] Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and the founder of the AHA Foundation, which exists to protect women and girls ...

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Prey: A Panel Discussion on Europe, Islam, and Women’s Rights

    Research | Podcasts
    Friday, July 2, 2021

    Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book on the explosion of sexual violence and harassment in Europe, was published in early 2021. Since then, the book has sparked a worldwide discussion online and offline about the immigration of huge numbers of mostly young Muslim men to European cities and its effect on the women who live there. To discuss this phenomenon, Peter Robinson is joined by Prey author and Hoover Institution research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali; Valerie Hudson, a professor of political science at the Bush School at Texas A&M University and an expert on women’s rights and demographics; and Christopher Caldwell, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and author.

    Prey: Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the Relationship between Immigration and Sexual Assaults in Europe

    Research | Podcasts
    Tuesday, February 23, 2021

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    Hoover research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new book is Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights. It examines the sharp rise in the number of sexual assaults in Western Europe that coincides with the sharp rise in illegal immigration from Muslim-majority countries.

    Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s Most Eloquent Apostate

    Research | Articles | by Tunku Varadarajan
    Friday, April 7, 2017

    The West’s obsession with ‘terror’ has been a mistake, she argues. Dawa, the ideology behind it, is a broader threat.

    Hirsi Ali Reads The Koran To Yassmin

    Research | Articles
    Friday, February 17, 2017

    Muslim apologist and ABC host Yassmin Abdel-Magied must have kept her eyes wide shut when Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's department unaccountably sent her to tour hard-line Iran and Saudi Arabia.

    Let Us Now Praise Muslim Apostates

    Research | Articles
    Friday, September 1, 2017

    Standing up to political correctness and facing death threats, the Muslim apostate writers Ibn Warraq and Ayaan Hirsi Ali have honored our increasingly endangered Western heritage of free thought, which includes the right—indeed, the obligation—to subject religious dogma to criticism and reason. 

    The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter it

    Research | Podcasts
    Sunday, April 23, 2017

    Hoover Institution fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali calls for decoupling political aims from the religion of Islam to combat growing radicalism. She also discusses counterterrorism strategy, which she argues should focus on battling the ideas that spread radicalism rather than the radicals themselves.

    The Challenge Of Dawa: Political Islam As Ideology And Movement And How To Counter It

    News | News/Press
    Tuesday, March 21, 2017

    The Hoover Institution Press today released The Challenge of Dawa: Political Islam as Ideology and Movement and How to Counter It by Hoover research fellow Ayaan Hirsi Ali. In this free downloadable report, Hirsi Ali argues that the American public urgently needs to be educated about both the ideology of political Islam, dawa, and the organizational infrastructure that Islamists use to inspire, indoctrinate, recruit, finance, and mobilize those Muslims whom they hope to win over to the extremist cause.

    Ilhan Omar Lets Rip Another Outburst Of Anti-Semitism

    Research | Articles
    Monday, July 15, 2019

    Congresswomen Ilhan Omar let rip another outburst of anti-Semitism this weekend at a conference in Philadelphia where she was speaking. Congresswomen Ilhan Omar let rip another outburst of anti-Semitism this weekend at a conference in Philadelphia where she was speaking. Commenting at the Netroots Conference on “the situation in Palestine,” Omar declared, “What we are doing now is having hypocrisy in not celebrating non-violent movements there and condemning it [sic].”

    On Radical Islam, Trump Has Lost His Focus

    Research | Articles | by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Wednesday, August 9, 2017

    There’s no ‘extreme vetting,’ no outreach to moderates, and too much coziness with Riyadh.

    Peter Berkowitz’s Five Books

    Research | Articles | by Peter Berkowitz
    Wednesday, January 12, 2011

    His reading list focuses on how liberty is won, lost, and neglected. By Jonathan Rauch.

    To Win On Iran, Trump Should Take A Page From Reagan's Diplomatic Playbook

    Research | Articles | by Abbas Milani
    Friday, July 19, 2019

    A perilous impasse exists between the Trump administration’s strident policy of “maximum pressure” and Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s no less strident policy of “no negotiation” with the United States. One way out of this fraught situation is a policy that appears to be a lose-lose for both sides but, in reality, is a win-win for all sides.

    Like Striking a Match

    Research | Articles | by Fouad Ajami
    Wednesday, July 13, 2011

    The spark seemed so small. But the Arab autocrats had spent decades heaping up the fuel. By Fouad Ajami.

    Confronting Saddam’s Legacy

    Research | Articles | by Timothy Garton Ash
    Wednesday, April 30, 2003

    Saddam Hussein has been purged from Iraq—now his legacy must be purged as well. By Hoover fellow Timothy Garton Ash.

    Bremer and Sisyphus

    Research | Articles | by Arnold Beichman
    Thursday, October 30, 2003

    Hoover fellow Arnold Beichman on the challenges confronting Paul Bremer, America’s envoy to Iraq.

    The Nightmare Comes True

    Research | Articles | by Stewart Baker
    Wednesday, September 29, 2010
    Homemade, custom-built bioweapons are no longer science fiction. Tomorrow’s terrorists will have them. From a new book by Stewart Baker.

    A Threat in Any Language

    Research | Articles | by Joshua Teitelbaum
    Thursday, January 22, 2009

    The leader of Iran wants to “wipe Israel off the map.” Was he misquoted? Not by a long shot. By Joshua Teitelbaum.

    The Predictioneer’s Game

    Research | Articles | by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    Wednesday, April 21, 2010

    Putting numbers to the news, Hoover fellow Bruce Bueno de Mesquita lays his bets on issues such as climate change and Middle East peace.

    Another Step Forward for Iraq

    Research | Articles | by Fouad Ajami
    Tuesday, March 2, 2010

    Forgive Vice President Joe Biden the audacity of claiming last month on CNN's "Larry King Live" that Iraq is destined to be "one of the great achievements of this administration." . . .

    Killer Robots and the Laws of War

    Research | Articles | by Kenneth Anderson
    Sunday, November 3, 2013

    With each new drone strike by the United States military, anger over the program mounts. On Friday, in one of the most significant U.S. strikes, a drone killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud in the lawless North Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan.

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