Professor Bennoune Part of Event Supporting Democratic Movement in Belarus

On April 19, Professor and U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune participated in the Atlantic Council/Eurasia Center online event “Resisting repression: How culture inspires the democratic movement in Belarus.” Read more about the event.

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.