Nonie Darwish is the author of Cruel and Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law (2009), a sociological analyses of Sharia’s impact on women/men, family, society, and globally. She also authored Now They Call Me Infidel (2006).

Nonie holds a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Anthropology and was a journalist at the Middle East News Agency. She founded www.ArabsForIsrael.com in 1994 and co-founded www.FormerMuslimsUnited.org, which stands for freedom of religion and civil rights of former Muslims in 2009.

Nonie was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo Egypt and Gaza. Her father headed the Egyptian military intelligence in Gaza in the ‘50s and headed the “Fedayeen” operations against Israel under the leadership of President Nasser of Egypt. He was killed by Israel in Gaza in 1956. Having lived in the heart of the Arab-Israeli conflict and having lost her father in the jihad against Israel, Nonie is committed to standing up for the truth in the Middle East and against the jihad and terrorism against Israel.

Nonie lectures extensively on college campuses and internationally. She has been published in the Guardian and Wall Street Journal and has appeared on CNN, Fox, MSNBC, C-SPAN, BBC, and Al Arabiya. She spoke before the European Parliament, members of the British House of Lords, and at Oxford University. She was featured in the documentary film Obsession. She was recently nominated for the Civil Courage Prize of The Train Foundation in New York.