Feminist author, Ayaan Hirsi, Ali speaks of her life and her courageous fight for freedom.Ayaan Hirsi Ali speaks at the Sydney Writer's Festival. Hear her speech: Click here
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali (pronunciation ; Somali: Ayaan Xirsi Cali; born Ayaan Hirsi Magan 13 November 1969[2] in Mogadishu, Somalia) is an African feminist and political writer, daughter of the Somali scholar, politician, and revolutionary opposition leader Hirsi Magan Isse. When she was six, her family left Somalia, eventually settling in Kenya. After she was forced into an arranged marriage with a cousin, she sought and obtained political asylum in the Netherlands in 1992, under circumstances that later became the center of a political controversy.
She is a prominent and controversial author, film maker, atheist, secularist and critic of Islam.
She has received numerous awards for her human rights work, and in 2005, was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
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