Infidel is an autobiographical book and New York Times bestseller by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, published in 2007. It is a translation of the Dutch book Mijn Vrijheid ("My Freedom"), which was released on September 29, 2006. It was released in English on February 1, 2007. For security reasons, the female ghostwriter of this book remains anonymous.
Hirsi Ali writes about her youth in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, about her flight to the Netherl...
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Infidel is an autobiographical book and New York Times bestseller by Ayaan Hirsi Ali, published in 2007. It is a translation of the Dutch book Mijn Vrijheid ("My Freedom"), which was released on September 29, 2006. It was released in English on February 1, 2007. For security reasons, the female ghostwriter of this book remains anonymous.
Hirsi Ali writes about her youth in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, about her flight to the Netherlands where she applied for political asylum, her university experience in Leiden, her work for the Labour Party, her transfer to the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy, her election to Parliament, and the murder of Theo van Gogh, with whom she made the film Submission. The book ends with the controversy regarding her citizenship, which helped bring down the Dutch government.
The launch of the book in the Netherlands was a great success, with the initial print run selling out in two days. A review in de Volkskrant concluded that "anyone...
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