Professor Bennoune Speaks on 'Countering Violent Extremism' at University of Nairobi

Professor Karima Bennoune spoke in Kenya at the University of Nairobi as part of a conference on "Countering Violent Extremism" hosted by the university in partnership with the Kenyan government on June 29. Professor Bennoune took part in a panel discussion of "Shaping the Discourse on Legitimate Narratives."

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.