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"This woman is a major hero of our time." —Richard Dawkins

Ayaan Hirsi Ali captured the world’s attention with Infidel, her compelling coming-of-age memoir, which spent thirty-one weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, in Nomad, Hirsi Ali tells of coming to America to build a new life, an ocean away from the death threats made to her by European Islamists, the strife she witnessed, and the inner conflict she suffered. It is the story of her physical journey to freedom and, more crucially, her emotional journey to freedom—her transition from a tribal mind-set that restricts women’s every thought and action to a life as a free and equal citizen in an open society. Through stories of the challenges she has faced, she shows the difficulty of reconciling the contradictions of Islam with Western values.

In these pages Hirsi Ali recounts the many turns her life took after she broke with her family, and how she struggled to throw off restrictive superstitions and misconceptions that initially hobbled her ability to assimilate into Western society. She writes movingly of her reconciliation, on his deathbed, with her devout father, who had disowned her when she renounced Islam after 9/11, as well as with her mother and cousins in Somalia and in Europe.

Nomad is a portrait of a family torn apart by the clash of civilizations. But it is also a touching, uplifting, and often funny account of one woman’s discovery of today’s America. While Hirsi Ali loves much of what she encounters, she fears we are repeating the European mistake of underestimating radical Islam. She calls on key institutions of the West—including universities, the feminist movement, and the Christian churches—to enact specific, innovative remedies that would help other Muslim immigrants to overcome the challenges she has experienced and to resist the fatal allure of fundamentalism and terrorism.

This is Hirsi Ali’s intellectual coming-of-age, a memoir that conveys her philosophy as well as her experiences, and that also conveys an urgent message and mission—to inform the West of the extent of the threat from Islam, both from outside and from within our open societies. A celebration of free speech and democracy, Nomad is an important contribution to the history of ideas, but above all a rousing call to action.

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“Illuminating analysis… [NOMAD’s] special strength…lies in the way that her arguments and perceptions are rooted in personal experience…. She rages eloquently…writes revealingly. NOMAD is an excellent read.”

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“Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s new memoir is the most powerful book you will have read in a long time.” --Christian Science Monitor

"Brilliant” --Tunku Varadarajan, The Daily Beast

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Ayaan Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu, Somalia, was raised Muslim, and spent her childhood and young adulthood in Africa and Saudi Arabia. In 1992, Hirsi Ali came to the Netherlands as a refugee. She earned her college degree in political science and worked for the Dutch Labor party. She denounced Islam after the September 11 terrorist attacks and now serves as a Dutch parliamentarian, fighting for the rights of Muslim women in Europe, the enlightenment of Islam, and security in the West.

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition (February 8, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781439157329
ISBN-13: 978-1439157329
ASIN: 1439157324
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.4 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #367,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4232 in Women's Studies (Books)
- #5405 in Women's Biographies
- #2653 in Political Leader Biographies

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Ralph White

Ms. Hirsi Ali Wasn't Surprised

Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2015

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When the president of Brandeis University, Frederick Lawrence, rescinded his offer of an honorary degree for Ayaan Hirsi Ali most of the world was amazed. Not Ms. Hirsi Ali. Her message is one of tolerance and free speech, as it has been in earlier books Infidel and The Caged Virgin. But, as she explains in Nomad, the standard now on university campuses is denial of free speech. She refers to it as the echo of political correctness. What Ms. Hirsi Ali discerns about Islam would have been useful to the students and to the school. Uniquely among religions Islam has a political backbone which is violent and threatening. There's nothing wrong with the religion of Islam, and if there were it wouldn't be anyone's business except Muslims. To the extent that shari'a law is inseparable from the spiritual features then Islam must be resisted. Ayaan Hirsi Ali looks forward to the day when there is an enlightenment, as there was in Christianity, in which rationality replaces Islamic dogma. Some Muslims would welcome such a split but many do not. As long as people, including university students, faculty, and administrators refuse to contemplate the possibility that Islam, as practiced in far too many places, is totalitarian, Ms. Hirsi Ali's voice will be heard. Well, Brandeis won't hear them...

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Karen S. Hansen

A book of hope

Reviewed in the United States on November 8, 2017

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I am thoroughly hooked on the writings of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, having finished the second and about to read the third of her books. What a brave woman to have excelled as she has, especially coming from such dire circumstances. She overcame tremendous hurdles because of her own determination, in order to explore what the world had to offer outside the containment of the existence and barriers built by her family to enclose her and prohibit her from being an independent woman. I have the most respect and admiration I could possibly have for any great lady. She is just that in my eyes. I wish I knew her personally but feel a similar closeness through her words. She does give hope to anyone who feels they know there is more to life than what they may know and she is proud that determination and making intelligent choices make it happen.

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Chen Kai Wen

EVERY BIT AS GOOD AS 'INFIDEL'; BUT AMAZON EDITOR: INTELLECTUAL COWARD OR APOLOGIST FOR INSTITUTIONAL WOMAN-HATING & TERRORISM?

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2015

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I mean, really. Does everyone recognize the quite extraordinary oddness in this case, that Amazon's editor has chosen to place the most negative reviews not below where I am now--which would be reasonable and pro-debate and pro-critical thinking, but above this area, in the Editorial section?? This never happens. What happens instead? You guys know. Repeated 5 star reviews often probably from multiple promotional department employees because after all, this is a book and music selling site. But look for yourself. This is quite a highly acclaimed writer and scholar, yet these two embarrasingly unfair critiques from companies such as Publishers Weekly which are NOT the end word of consensus for books in any case, are presented in an elevated position of supposed authority. So, before any actual reader gets a chance, we are told that "she has become tiresomly reptitive and her wholesale condemnation of an entire religion...(and) her romanitc view of Christianity is so wide-eyed...reads like a callow excuse (for)...the author's own self-entitlement." Absolute cowardly non-sense. Then, another: and I'm paraphrasing, read it yourself, tell me I'm wrong" most found her slander of Islam to be oblivious that Islam is all about peace...Infidel is the far better book'. Why is this stupid tripe placed in this section ? Cowardice? I have to wonder/worry, since this kind of thing is so very rare on Amazon, has the Amazon editor been shouted down or even threatended with violence by radical muslim crazies? Why else be so obviously anti-debate, so anti-critical thinking, and so one-sidedly lock-stepped against Ali's extremely brave and accuate book?

To respond to others' misinformation, yes this book does continue where 'Infidel' left off. Yes, it does contain as centerpiece, a continuation of her Dad story, on her father's deathbed, as she needs protection naturally to be there considering all the death threats from that peaceful religion's true believers. There's no such thing as wide-eyed ignorance or obliviousness or sense of entitlement--unless one means, that as a female, Ali strongly opines that she should not be forced to marry at age 9 as the prophet modeled, she should not be forced to marry an old geezer in another country who she never met, she should not be forced to have her sexual organs mutilated, and she should not be forced to obey the men in her life because the prophet demanded that females be considered chattle. You don't like those opinions? Fine. But you are wrong. Live with it.

If the motivation for these stupid and embarrasingly inaccurate editorials' placement was not fear of being bombed, then my second theory is that Ali's condemnation of the supposedly well-meaning politically correct cultural relativists who believe that minorities and the darker-skinned cannot be criticized in any way, because that is their religious freedom (to mutilate female sexual organs, to demand arranged marriages for 9 year-old girls, and honor killings because 'that's just the way they are' , and who are we to say, since we (ad hominem?) bomb Iran and our leader was Christian, and we had slaves several hundred years ago, and don't get us started on what we did to the American Indians. THIS Amazon editor is one of THOSE people who supports ignorant shout-downs of Ali for having the guts to point out that Islam never went through the scrutity that Christianity and the Jews went through during the age of enlightenment. That's why they have not come to terms--in the mainstream, with down-playing all the old fashioned horriblleness of their holy books, considered some things to be applicable only to that era, considered that mistakes were made since holy books were written by men, and in the specific case of Islam, considered that Mohammed was not like Jesus a peacenik who turned the other cheek and advised others to render onto Caesar what is Caesar's' but a man of war with sword, rather like the old testament's Joshua or David. Worse even, if possible, is the suggestion that these politically correct do-gooders who like the Amazon editor, want to tell others the "right" way to think, are in themselves, rationalizing and entitling displaced and alienated Muslims (who they believe it is wrong to try to encourage to join the melting pot that is our society) to seek out bomb making materials. Five stars for this book. No stars for the cowardly Amazon editor who must deep down hate woman (and free speech/critical thinking/modernity) very very much.

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Powerful story and powerful case

Reviewed in the United States on June 23, 2019

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Author (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) is a heavy weight in the debates about Islam. She is an apostate who must travel with body guards. She left Somalia, served in the Dutch government, and now lives in the US. She makes a strong case against Islam as largely a backwards tribal intolerant oppressive system of thinking that needs a revolution from within if it is going to be of any use. The author wants to pull back the veil of Islam from a billion people. Even if a person is not a radical Muslim of some extremist group, there is still the larger culture and religious system that restricts thoughts, speech, and behavior in Muslim societies in many parts of the world.

It has been a few years since I read this book, but I recall that some parts of the book seemed disorganized, repetitive, or rambling.
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Mike D.

A Woman for Our Times

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2015

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Another telling of the story of a courageous woman who overcame dogged, unthinking superstition, ostriscing cultural backwardness and death threats to become an independent, clear thinking writer. Her travels through the physical world from Somalia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Holland and the United States is only eclipsed by her even more remarkable journey from crushing Islamic dogma to an open-minded, realistic approach to the state of the world today. Told in a more intellectual style than her nitty-gritty personal narrative in "Infidel" Hirsi Ali writes with honesty, clarity and a carefully controlled passion. A jarring and moving read.

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Book was in very good condition as advertised. Started reading and it's a fascinating read. Can only recommend.

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Good book with excellent points at the end. We should all read Hirsi Ali's books

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Waste of time

Reviewed in Canada on April 15, 2019

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I had read her other book “infidel”, and even though I didn’t agree with some of her thoughts, I still liked the book because it was informative. “Nomad” however is the lowest book I have read in a while. Hirsi Ali wants to fit in the America’s life by criticizing where she came from, and comparing Islamic faith with western life, by talking about illiterate people, poor and uneducated life they live. The ignorance, which they didn’t choose, is the only reality they know. She has the potential to bring some light in their life, but she’s too focused on becoming famous and wanting to have the attention of this side of the world. These people don’t know better, and this woman is putting just gazoline on fire in a time where we want peace. All the religions can be interpreted in extreme by many, lucky him/her that finds the best and uses the intellectual mind to find the equilibrium and bring some positivity between different believers. What a shame she doesn’t know better, even after all this life experience she had.

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Ali is a true hero

Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2020

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Great book by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. This is her story, her experience. Some folks don't like it because it somewhat triggers their sense of social justice. But all Ayaan can do is share her life story and life experience. Takes a lot of courage as some people are offended by hearing it. I am glad her life turned out good.

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Shaghil

Bold and critical biography

Reviewed in India on August 22, 2017

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Ayaan Ali Hirsi speaks her mind however unfavourable her ideas may appear. In this book also she has quite a critical view things and people around her since her birth. The book also gives idea about how moderate Muslims can pursue their religiin and how European countries and the US should combat the problem of Islamic terrorism. In last she also writes a beautiful letter to her imaginary daughter to tell her how wouls she treat her as a mother who believes in emancipation of woman and humanitarian view of life.

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Cradle of civilisation

Reviewed in India on November 1, 2016

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I was told during my childhood that this particular piece of the globe, that particular piece of the globe was mankind's cradle of civilisation, but now after reading this I have come to the conclusion that mankind's cradle of civilisation isn't a piece of earth here or there....instead... it's the WOMAN..... it's the WOMAN who bears the man...and it's she who has the patience, perseverance and love to make a human out of this beast known as man...

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Claire

Many life lessons learned!

Reviewed in Canada on November 10, 2014

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I loved the clear, decisive prose style. No beating around the bush! I was basically ignorant about the Muslim people and lands. This book is a good introduction to the subject matter. The author's varied experiences and very clear analysis of them allows readers to easily grasp the issues. Ayaah is very rational.

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honest

Reviewed in Canada on May 8, 2014

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it felt like this book was written from a very honest open place. A rare thing today to write about such a sensitive topic. Although some may accuse Ms. Hirsi of writting only from her personal point of view and that it may not reflet what other muslims feel or believe, I dont buy this argument. Her writing is precise, her thought process clear, and frankly she is braver than anyone to tell it like it is.

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Enlightening

Reviewed in Canada on November 15, 2017

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This book is very helpful for those who want to understand why the West is struggling with the behaviour Muslim immigrants. It has answered many of the question that I had regarding this issue.

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Sehr interessant und beeindruckend

Reviewed in Germany on August 23, 2013

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Dieses Buch war eine Empfehlung meines Englischlehrers. Diese Empfehlung kann ich nur bestätigen, da man Einblicke in das Leben einer islamischen Frau bekommt und wie schwierig der Ausstieg aus diesem Glauben ist.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Canada on December 14, 2014

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A great book about a strong woman who pays a high price for her freedom. Anothr book club gem

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I would like to learn more about their customs and traditions to ...

Reviewed in Canada on November 7, 2015

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Am enjoying the book. Having read Infidel, her earlier book, and working with Muslim refugees encouraged me to read this. I would like to learn more about their customs and traditions to understand these people better.

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A must read

Reviewed in Canada on August 2, 2013

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I would recommend this book to everyone. It is so informative and as a true story breaks your heart to read how women are treated in different cultures and religions.

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