Professor Bennoune Interviewed on New Hampshire Public Radio
Professor Karima Bennoune was interviewed on the New Hampshire Public Radio program The Exchange as part of an episode on "Fighting Islamic Fundamentalism: The Key Role of Local Muslim Activists" broadcast on October 1. In the hour-long interview, Professor Bennoune touches on a wide range of subjects associated with the fight against violent extremism, including her family history in Algeria during that nation's "dark decade" of extremist violence, the many people of Muslim heritage who have risked their lives in speaking out against extremism, and the need for people in the United States and the West to support 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. Most recently, she was appointed by the United Nation as its Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.