Professor Bennoune Lectures at Brandeis University

Professor Karima Bennoune delivered the Annual Diane Markowicz Lecture on Gender and Human Rights at Brandeis University on April 3. She discussed the work of women's human rights defenders against religious extremism, and shared stories  from "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight against Muslim Fundamentalism," her Dayton Literary Peace Prize-winning book.

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