Ayaan Hirsi Ali and AHA Foundation in the News


May 16, 2022

America’s Crisis of Self-Doubt – National Review

We live in an age of increasing national self-doubt. The American project, as such, is under assault. Our history […]
May 12, 2022

How Social Media Crucially Helps and Hinders ex-Muslims – Focus on Western Islamism

Social media has played a contradictory role in helping ex-Muslims recount the abuse they have endured after leaving […]
May 10, 2022

The desperation of Biden’s Disinformation Board – Ayaan Hirsi Ali in UnHerd

In 1918, Woodrow Wilson’s Democratic administration passed a piece of legislation it hoped would accelerate the end of […]
May 2, 2022

Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the Munk Dialogues

Activist, feminist, author, scholar and former politician, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is the best selling author of Infidel and Heretic: Why Islam […]
April 27, 2022

This isn’t a war between good and evil – UnHerd

The images emerging from Bucha are haunting. Dead civilians line the streets, many with their hands bound behind […]
April 19, 2022

The Cocktail Party Contrarian: Everything in Moderation, Including Being a Moderate – The New York Sun

Years ago, after Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s now seminal book “Infidel” was first published, I attended a party for […]
March 17, 2022

Europe’s empty promises to Ukraine – UnHerd

Every war has a photograph that captures its horrors. Vietnam had Napalm Girl; Spain had The Falling Soldier. How will […]
March 3, 2022

How Vladimir Putin weaponises refugees – UnHerd

For the last three decades, Europe’s leaders have pursued a noble strategy to prevent conflict using trade, aid […]
March 3, 2022

We deserve better than these weaklings – UnHerd

Vladimir Putin is many things. To Boris Johnson, he is “irrational”. To Joe Biden, he is “a killer”. […]
February 4, 2022

Zero Means Zero Tolerance for FGM – Independent Women’s Forum

AHA Foundation’s work features in Andrea Bottner’s ‘Zero Means Zero Tolerance for FGM’ report in Independent Women’s Forum. […]
January 20, 2022

The Texas synagogue attack won’t be the last – UnHerd

“At one point, our attacker instructed us to get on our knees. I reared up in my chair, […]
January 17, 2022

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Will Speak at TOS-Con 2022 – The Objective Standard

I’m delighted to announce that Ayaan Hirsi Ali has joined the roster for TOS-Con 2022: Philosophy for Freedom and […]
December 29, 2021

Tribalism has come to the West – UnHerd Best of 2021

Note: this article was originally published in May 2021, and was republished in December as part of UnHerd’s […]
December 29, 2021

Megan Phelps-Roper on the Value of Empathy – The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast

Megan Phelps-Roper was raised in the Westboro Baptist Church, the Topeka, Kansas church known internationally for its daily […]
November 25, 2021

Paulina Neuding on Crime in Sweden – The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast

Ayaan speaks with Paulina Neuding about rising crime rates in Sweden, humiliation robberies against children, and what Swedish […]