Professor Bennoune Speaks at Tunisian Anti-Terror Conference

Professor Karima Bennoune spoke in Tunis on August 12 at an anti-terrorism conference organized by Dean Habib Kazdaghli of Manouba University's Faculty of Arts. The conference, unofficially titled "La lil irhab" or "No to terrorism," is taking place in response to the terrorist attack in Sousse, Tunisia, in June that claimed 39 lives.

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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