Haidar, Ensaf: Raif Badawi, the Voice of Freedom

Ensaf Haidar was born in 1975 in Jizan, Saudi Arabia. Against the will of her family she married Raif Badawi in 2002. When Raif was imprisoned, Ensaf and their children escaped from Saudi Arabia and were finally granted asylum in Canada. Since then Ensaf has been desperately fighting to free her husband and raise awareness of Raif's story across the world. Andrea C. Hoffmann is a political editor and Middle East expert for the news magazine Focus and has been travelling the region for more than fifteen years. She recently coauthored The Girl Who Beat Isis: Farida's Story (Vintage). Hoffmann's reportages about Iran have been awarded many prizes. Shaun Whiteside has translated many books from the German, including the works of Nietzsche, Spengler, and Freud.