About Helle Merete Brix
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Helle Merete Brix is a journalist, author, lecturer and editor of Sappho.dk, Denmark’s most outspoken web magazine on free speech, islamism and antisemitism. For a number of years she has been one of Denmark’s most well known writers and commentators on these subjects.
She got her education as a journalist from The Danish School of Journalism and is a frequent contributor to Danish newspapers and magazines. She is also a regular contributor to the web magazine of the Norwegian human rights organization Human Rights Service.
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 noted 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 and led to the establishment The Free Press Society of whose steering board she was a member from 2005-2007.
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). Since 1999 she has taught creative writing in Copenhagen.
In connection with the Danish cartoon affair and the publication of The Jewel of Medina in Denmark she has been interviewed for Danish and international media. As a journalist and author she has received numerous grants.
