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In the United States, Ali has founded an organisation for the defense of women's rights, the [[AHA Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-10-17 |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Feminism's freedom fighter |url=https://www.latimes.com/la-oe-morrison-new17-2009oct17-column.html |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref> She has taken roles at the [[Hoover Institution]] at [[Stanford University]], the [[American Enterprise Institute]], and at [[Harvard Kennedy School]] as a senior fellow at the Future of Democracy Project.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali |url=http://www.hoover.org/profiles/ayaan-hirsi-ali |website=[[Hoover Institution]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali |url=https://www.aei.org/profile/ayaan-hirsi-ali/ |access-date=2020-08-13 |website=American Enterprise Institute - AEI |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali |url=https://www.belfercenter.org/person/ayaan-hirsi-ali |access-date=2022-05-23 |website=Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs |date=14 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Since 2021, she has served as a columnist for ''[[UnHerd]]'', a British online magazine; since 2022, she has also hosted ''The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-29 |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Queers for Palestine' shows how stupid our society is |url=https://www.jpost.com/j-spot/article-775631 |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Civilization and Its Enemies - Opinion: Free Expression - WSJ Podcasts |url=https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/opinion-free-expression/civilization-and-its-enemies/7a0aa242-9e0c-4972-ab44-e75a81a78b78 |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=WSJ |language=en}}</ref>

Ali was a central figure in [[New Atheism]] since its beginnings.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gregory |first=Elizabeth |date=17 August 2023 |title=Richard Dawkins: everything you need to know about the world's most famous atheist |work=[[London Evening Standard]] |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/richard-dawkins-professor-atheist-free-speech-b1100953.html}}</ref> She was strongly associated with the movement, along with [[Christopher Hitchens]], who regarded Ali as "the most important public intellectual probably ever to come out of Africa".<ref name=":9" /> Writing in a column in November 2023, Ali announced her conversion to the Christian faith, claiming that in her view the Judeo-Christian tradition is the only answer to the problems of the modern world.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":52">{{cite book |chapter=The New Atheism |date=2017 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/jihad-radicalism-and-the-new-atheism/new-atheism/5971EDDFB153952A0D0C593DE26E074A |title=Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism |pages=95–96 |editor-last=Khalil |editor-first=Mohammad Hassan |access-date=2022-12-24 |place=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |doi=10.1017/9781108377263.009 |isbn=978-1-108-38512-1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Ali |first=Ayaan Hirsi |date=11 November 2023 |title=Why I am now a Christian |work=UnHerd |url=https://unherd.com/2023/11/why-i-am-now-a-christian/}}</ref> She has received several awards, including a free speech award from the centre-right Danish newspaper ''[[Jyllands-Posten]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/Hirsi+wins+rights+award+from+Danish+cartoon+paper/2963014/story.html |agency=[[Agence France-Presse]] |work=[[Montreal Gazette]] |title=Hirsi Ali wins rights award from Danish cartoon paper |year=2010 |access-date=9 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722004847/http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Hirsi%2Bwins%2Brights%2Baward%2Bfrom%2BDanish%2Bcartoon%2Bpaper/2963014/story.html |archive-date=22 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the Swedish conservative [[Liberals (Sweden)|Liberal Party]]'s Democracy Prize,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smedjan.com/etta.asp?sida=view_comment&entry=147 |title=Varför Vill Hon Fortfarande Vara Muslim? |publisher=Smedjan.com |work=den liberala scenen i svensk debatt |date=30 August 2005 |access-date=27 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313195723/http://www.smedjan.com/etta.asp?sida=view_comment&entry=147 |archive-date=13 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> and the Moral Courage Award for commitment to conflict resolution, ethics, and world citizenship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=947 |title=Biography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali |publisher=The Globalist |access-date=27 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407213316/http://www.theglobalist.com/AuthorBiography.aspx?AuthorId=947 |archive-date=7 April 2008}}</ref> Critics have accused Ali of being [[Islamophobic]] or [[neo-orientalist]] and question her scholarly credentials "to speak authoritatively about Islam and the Arab world", saying she promotes the notion of a Western "[[civilizing mission]]".<ref name="Mahmood" /><ref name="Yaghi">{{cite journal|last1=Yaghi|first1=Adam|date=18 December 2015|title=Popular Testimonial Literature by American Cultural Conservatives of Arab or Muslim Descent: Narrating the Self, Translating (an)Other|journal=Middle East Critique|volume=25|issue=1|pages=83–98|doi=10.1080/19436149.2015.1107996|s2cid=146227696}}</ref><ref name="Grewal" /> Ali is married to Scottish-American historian [[Niall Ferguson]]. The couple are raising their sons in the United States, where she became a citizen in 2013.<ref name=":14" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-05-17 |title=Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Immigration Reform and Assimilation in Europe |url=https://lithub.com/ayaan-hirsi-ali-on-immigration-reform-and-assimilation-in-europe/ |access-date=2023-12-07 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref> she recently converted to Christianity

== Early life in Somalia ==