Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the author of ‘Infidel’ was named the “most influential people in the world today” by TIME magazine in April 2005. She has death threats issued against her, but the magazine categorized her in influential “Leaders and Revolutionaries.” What makes her influential is her ideas that make her a controversial political figure. She was born in Somalia, was raised as a Muslim, and spent her childhood in Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia. She is now Dutch-American. She was a member of Parliament in Holland. She now runs a non-profit, which is named after her: The AHA Foundation. She is controversial because she asks the most difficult questions in today’s world.
Category: Book
Book: Frankenstein in Baghdad
This book made me think about the different tales and narratives that exist in Kashmir. Although Kashmir is not a war zone like Iraq, it has been a conflict-stricken zone for the last 73 years now. Elliot Ackerman, National Book Award finalist for Dark at the Crossing confirms how the story is relevant to any war or a conflict stricken zone. They write, it is “[o]ne of the most essential books to come out of the Iraq War, or any war.”
Kashmir Commentary 