== Baggrund ==
Bat Ye'or blev født i [[Kairo]], ind i en jødisk middelklasse familie, men hun og hendes fader og moder blev tvunget til at forlade Egypten i 1957, som gengæld for krigen ved [[Suez kanalen]] og den israelske invasion af Sinai,<ref>[[Sir Martin Gilbert]], ''A History of the Twentieth Century'', Volume III: 1952-1999 s.127 <br />''"Also embarking on new lives as refugees were 25,000 Egyptian Jews, who, after many generations contributing to the life, prosperity and culture of Egypt, were forced to leave, following the Suez War and Israel’s attack in Sinai. More than half of them went to Israel, where, under a Law of Return passed six years earlier, any Jew arriving in Israel could become a citizen. Most of those who went elsewhere did so as ‘stateless refugees, among them Gisele Orebi (later Gisele Litrman), who was to become the acknowledged expert on the plight of Jews and Christians in Muslim lands, and their vigorous champion: her book The Dhimrni. Jews and Christians under Islam, written under the pen name Bat Ye’or, brought the issue of continuing discrimination to a wide public."''</ref> og de ankom til [[London]] som [[statsløs]]e [[flygtning]]e. I [[1958]] begyndte hun at studere ved det ''Arkæologiske institut'' ved [[University College London]], og i [[1959]] opnåede hun britisk statsborgerskab ved ægteskab. I [[1960]] flyttede hun til [[Schweiz]] for at fortsætte sine studier ved [[Université de Genève]].
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