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Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a Dutch-Somalian author, filmmaker, and former MP of the Dutch parliament. In 2004, with controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, she made the film Submission about the oppression of women in Islamic cultures. Click here to read her blog.

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Idols & Insults: writing, religion, and freedom of expression

Writers and thinkers, including Tariq Ramadan, Aayan Hirsi Ali and Hans Magnus Enzensberger, debate religion and freedom of expression in the third audio feature from the PEN World Voices literary festival.

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