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Latest media appearance in english:
22. July 2011: Helle Merete Brix interviewed on Russia Today about the terrorist attack in Oslo
30. December 2010: Helle Merete Brix interviewed on Russia Today about failed terror attack in Copenhagen
3. September 2010: Helle Merete Brix interviewed on Russia Today about Thilo Sarrazin and freedom of speech
20 January 2010: Helle Merete Brix interviewed on Russia Today: Hate Crime or Free Speech? Geert Wilders on trial
30 October 2009: New Culture Forum, London: The Cartoon Effect: Fundamentalism vs liberal values
Helen Szamuely listens to different perspectives on Denmark after the cartoon affair
About Helle Merete Brix
Helle Merete Brix is a journalist, author and lecturer, writing and speaking about such matters as free speech, islam in the West, literature, art and spirituality. As a journalist she has interviewed artists and writers with an international reputation such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Henryk Broder, Ben Okri, Peter Godwin, Mona Eltahawy, Phyllis Chesler, Abd al Malik, Elisabeth Schemla, Douglas Murray, Peter Whittle, Chris van Wyk, Freidoune Sahebjam, Samia Labidi, Hanan al-Shaikh and Abed Azrie.
For a number of years she has also been one of Denmark’s most well known writers and commentators on the subjects free speech and islam in the West. Today Brix works freelance, writes for the web magazine of the Norwegian human rights organization Human Rights Service and does literary critic, interviews ect. for the danish weekly magazine Weekendavisen. Since 1999 she has also taught creative writing in Copenhagen.
From 2005 untill June 2010 she was also editor of Sappho.dk, The Free Press´Society´s webmagazine. She got her education as a journalist from The Danish School of Journalism and has during the years been a frequent contributor to Danish newspapers and magazines.
Her latest book Mod Mørket: Det Muslimske Broderskab i Europa [Towards Darkness: The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe] was released in April 2008. It has received excellent reviews, for instance from the american-norwegian bestseller author Bruce Bawer.
In 2005 Helle Merete Brix published the book Fri tale [Free Speech] on Danish artists and free speech. It was co-edited with the former President of the Organization of Danish Fiction Writers Peter Legaard Nielsen and the actor and commentator Farshad Kholghi.
In 2003 she published I krigens hus: Islams kolonisering af Vesten [In the House of War: Islam's Colonization of the West], co-authored with Torben Hansen and Lars Hedegaard (Aarhus, Hovedland, 2003). The book created a storm in the media.
In 2002 she edited Islam i Vesten: På Koranens vej? [Islam in the West: On the Path of the Koran?] (Copenhagen, Tiderne Skifter, 2002). In the same year the Copenhagen theater Folketeatret produced her monologue De frafaldne [The Apostates] on totalitarian ideologies in the 20th century. She has also published an autobiography I begyndelsen [In the Beginning] (Copenhagen, Tiderne Skifter, 1990).
