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Infidel
by Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0743289684
- ISBN 13
- 9780743289689
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About This Item
New York: Free Press 978-0-7432-8968-9 [978-0-7432-8968-9] 2007. (Hardcover) 353pp. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. Photographs. There is a remainder marking to the bottom edge and a previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. "In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of the Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West". Book about Childhood. Locale: Kenya; Saudi Arabia; Somalia. (Biography, Activism, Islam, Memoir, Political Activism).
Synopsis
One of todayâÈçs most admired and controversial political figures, Ayaan Hirsi Ali burst into international headlines following the murder of Theo van Gogh by an Islamist who threatened that she would be next. She made headlines again when she was stripped of her citizenship and resigned from the Dutch Parliament. Infidel shows the coming of age of this distinguished political superstar and champion of free speech as well as the development of her beliefs, iron will, and extraordinary determination to fight injustice. Raised in a strict Muslim family, Hirsi Ali survived civil war, female mutilation, brutal beatings, adolescence as a devout believer during the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, and life in four troubled, unstable countries ruled largely by despots. She escaped from a forced marriage and sought asylum in the Netherlands, where she earned a college degree in political science, tried to help her tragically depressed sister adjust to the West, and fought for the rights of Muslim women and the reform of Islam as a member of Parliament. Under constant threat, demonized by reactionary Islamists and politicians, disowned by her father, and expelled from family and clan, she refuses to be silenced. Ultimately a celebration of triumph over adversity, Hirsi AliâÈçs story tells how a bright little girl evolves out of dutiful obedience to become an outspoken, pioneering freedom fighter. As Western governments struggle to balance democratic ideals with religious pressures, no other book could be more timely or more significant.
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- Bookseller
- Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 153417
- Title
- Infidel
- Author
- Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0743289684
- ISBN 13
- 9780743289689
- Publisher
- Free Press 978-0-7432-8968-9
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Biography, Activism, Islam, Memoir, Political Activism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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