Professor Bennoune Delivers Edward Said Memorial Lecture at England's University of Warwick

Professor Karima Bennoune delivered the Thirteenth Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture at the University of Warwick on March 2.  Her talk was entitled "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Dissent and Solidarity after Said."  The lecture is named for Edward Said, a distinguished Palestinian American scholar and author of numerous works, including "Orientalism" and "Covering Islam."  In the talk, Professor Bennoune analyzed Western reactions to resistance among people of Muslim heritage to Muslim fundamentalist movements through the lens of Said's work.  She called for solidarity with those social dissenters and defended their right to critical thinking.

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. In October 2015, she was appointed UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.

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