Professor Bennoune joins virtual summit on cultural mobilization amid COVID-19 crisis

On April 22, Professor Karima Bennoune, the U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, took part in the Zoom session “Live Learning Experience: Beyond the Immediate Response to the Outbreak.”

The session featured officials from different regions of the world discussing how their cities and cultural initiatives are responding to the COVID-19 crisis.

Karima Bennoune, Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, 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. In 2014, she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism (W.W. Norton & Company). In October 2015, she was appointed U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights. She received the 2016 Rights and Leadership Award from IANGEL, the International Action Network for Gender Equity & Law.