Ms. Darwish is a Senior Fellow at the Center. She is an American human rights activist, writer, public speaker and founder of Arabs For Israel. She is the author of Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror and, more recently, Cruel And Usual Punishment: The Terrifying Global Implications of Islamic Law. Born in Egypt, Darwish is the daughter of an Egyptian Army lieutenant general, who, when assassinated by the Israeli army in 1956, was called a "shahid" by the Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, although Darwish blames "the Middle Eastern Islamic culture and the propaganda of hatred taught to children from birth" for the assassination. In 1978, she moved with her husband to the United States, and converted to Christianity there. After September 11, 2001 she has written on Islam-related topics.