Resources

Find Help – The AHA Foundation Resource Directory

• Resource Directory (PDF)

Training

• The AHA Foundation provides training to law enforcement, educators, shelters, service providers and other organizations working to protecting women and girls.  If your organization is interested, please contact us at info@theahafoundation.org for details.

AHA Foundation Reports

• Violence and Restraints on Women in Islamic Immigrant Communities: A summary of European best practices in approaching these issues and recommendations to U.S. legislators and policymakers (PDF)
• Freedom of Expression and the Rights of Women: Executive Summary and Recommendations (PDF)
• Freedom of Expression and the Rights of Women: Full Report (PDF)
• Female Genital Mutilation Statutes in the United States and United Kingdom (PowerPoint)
• What Do We Know? Facts and figures on the circumstances affecting Muslim girls and women in the United States (PDF)

Fact Sheets

• Honor Violence (PDF)
• Female Genital Mutilation (PDF)
• Forced Marriage (PDF)
• Sharia Law (PDF)

Conferences

• The AHA Foundation Honor Violence Symposium, June 6, 2011, New York City
• Transcript (PDF)
• The AHA Foundation Honor Violence Symposium Highlight Video (Video)
• Keynote Lecture: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Founder of the AHA Foundation (Video)
• Keynote Lecture: Nazir Afzal OBE, Director of the UK’s Crown Prosecution Service (Video)
• Keynote Lecture: Lead Prosecutor Laura Reckart and Detective Chris Boughey (Video)

Annual Reports

• The AHA Foundation 2011 Annual Report (PDF)

Additional Readings

History, Philosophy and Political Analysis

• Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam. New York: Free Press, 2006.
• Amin, Qasim. The Liberation of Women and the New Woman: Two Documents in the History of Egyptian Feminism. Cairo: American University of Cairo Press, 2000 [1899].
• Bawer, Bruce. While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within. New York: Broadway Books, 2006.
• Chesler, Phyllis. “Are Honor Killings Simply Domestic Violence?” Middle East Quarterly XVI (2) 2009: 61-69.
• Husseini, Rana. Murder in the Name of Honor. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2009.
• Lewis, Bernard and Buntzie Ellis Churchill. Islam: The Religion and the People. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2008.
• Mandelbaum, David G. Women’s Seclusion and Men’s Honor: Sex Roles in North India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1988.
• Manji, Irshad. The Trouble with Islam Today: a Muslim’s Call for Reform of her Faith. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
• Nomani, Asra. Standing Alone: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam. New York: Harper Collins, 2006.
• Saadawi, Nawal El. The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. London: Zed Books, 1980.
• Sommers, Christina Hoff. “The Subjection of Islamic Women and the fecklessness of American Feminism.” The Weekly Standard 2007 (34): 14-20.
• Steyn, Mark. America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2008.

Personal Narratives

• Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Nomad. New York: Free Press, 2010.
• Ali, Ayaan Hirsi. Infidel. New York: Free Press, 2007.
• Ahmed, Qanta A. In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor’s Journey in the Saudi Kingdom. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2008.
• Fernea, Elizabeth Warnock. In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman’s Global Journey. New York: Anchor Books, 1998.
• Gabriel, Brigitte. Because They Hate – A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns America. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
• Nafisi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran. New York: Random House, 2003.
• Rodriguez, Deborah and Kristin Ohlson. Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil. New York: Random House, 2007.
• Zanganeh, Lila Azam. My Sister Guard Your Veil: My Brother Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.