Professor Bennoune Comments for NPR's All Things Considered on Filmmaker's Stand against Extremism

Professor Karima Bennoune was a guest on the National Public Radio program All Things Considered on February 9, taking part in a discussion of the Oscar-nominated film Timbuktu, which deals with events that occurred three years ago in Mali when the city of Timbuktu was occupied by jihadist fighters.

"It is a portrait both of the reality that people of Muslim heritage have been the first victims of the Jihadist groups, but they have also been the first to stand up and resist," Bennoune said. "You see this in the film with a singer who is flogged for singing and who then sings while being flogged."

Karima Bennoune is an author, lecturer, teacher, and international law scholar as well as the first Arab-American to be honored with the Derrick A. Bell Award from the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools. She recently was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism, now available in paperback from W.W. Norton & Company.

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