Professor Bennoune Quoted in CNN Report on Murder of Bangladeshi Law Student
Professor Karima Bennoune was quoted in a CNN report on the killing of secular Bangladeshi blogger Nazimuddin Samad, 28, by the Bangladesh division of al Qaeda. The CNN account of the killing includes a tweet by Professor Bennoune in which she states "Extremism is a human rights issue," and notes that she is mourning the fallen law student.
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. In October 2015, she was appointed UN Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights.