Professor Bennoune Contributes Essay on Terrorism to 'Trials of Spring'
Professor Karima Bennoune contributed an essay to "The Trials of Spring," a multi-media initiative that seeks to publicize the role of women in the uprisings that swept the Arab world in 2011 and in opposing fundamentalist violence.
In her essay "I am Charlie. I am ____" Professor Bennoune writes of the need to show solidarity with the victims of the terrorist attack at the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo, but also the need "to stand with all of the Charlies out there" who have suffered as a result of armed Islamism and who are risking their lives in speaking out against terrorist groups.
"Civil society, the media, governments and international organizations must pay attention to all the victims of jihadist terror whose lives also matter," writes Bennoune. "Moreover, we cannot win the struggle against this form of terrorism if we do not pay attention to them."
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.