Professor Bennoune Comments for Association for Women's Rights in Development on Hopes for 2015

Professor Karima Bennoune was one of a group of feminists and women's rights advocates asked by Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) to define their hopes and dreams for 2015. The comments were published on the AWID homepage.

"My dream is that in 2015 we will put an end to jihadist violence, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands around the world - primarily women, men and children in Muslim majority countries - and that we will discredit the fundamentalist ideology that underlies that violence," Bennoune said. "My dream is also that this will be done in a way that respects international law and human rights and that we will see an end to discrimination against people of Muslim heritage in the West."

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.