Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world
The Starr Forum at MIT is hosting a conversation with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Fellow of the Belfer Center with the Future of Diplomacy Project.
A distinguished political leader and relentless champion of free speech and women's rights, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is one of today's most admired and controversial public figures. She will be coming to MIT to discuss her book: Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now (published March 2015). Hirsi Ali has been honored as one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People, a Glamour Magazine Hero and as Reader Digest's European of the Year.
"Without fundamental alteration to some of Islam's core concepts," she says, "we shall not solve the burning and increasingly global problem of political violence carried out in the name of religion."
Currently, Hirsi Ali is a fellow with the Future of Diplomacy Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University.
Joining the conversation will be John Tirman, the executive director and principal research scientist at MIT's Center for International Studies. A prolific writer, his most recent book is Dream Chasers: Immigration and the American Backlash (published March 2015).
Free and open to the public | Refreshments served | Books sold at the event | Sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies
MIT's Building 34 Room 101, 50 Vassar St., Cambridge