Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Caged Virgin

Essays on women, Islam, and the struggle for religious reform

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Somali-Dutch writer and activist whose memoir Infidel is a bestselling account of her break with Islam. Her subsequent work continues to explore Islam, feminism, and Western liberalism. She is one of the most controversial and widely read memoirists of her generation.

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