Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The Good Faith of an Infidel

For most of human history, the other half of the species, women, were on the sidelines. Now they are central actors in all our societies as we negotiate the fraught transition from male-dominated tradition to modernity and beyond. In this section we hear the voices of powerful women who in their own lives are making this historic shift.

Don't Disarm Secularism

In this age of confrontation, the secular Turkish model has been seen as a bridge between Islam and the West as well as the link between Europe and Asia. Now that model faces the most severe test in its history. How the current crisis is settled will frame future relations between Islam and the West no less than the events of 9/11.