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

While in parliament, she focused on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society and defending the rights of Muslim women. She has written several books, including Infidel (2007), Nomad: From Islam to America, a Personal Journey through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now (2015), and The Challenge of Dawa (2017).

Her next book, Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights, will be published by HarperCollins in 2020. Prior to joining the Hoover Institution, she was a fellow at the Belfer Center’s Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University and a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. She received her master’s degree in political science from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

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