Professor Bennoune Speaks at Muslims for Progressive Values Event

Professor Karima Bennoune spoke at "Celebration of Life: Remembering Those Lives We Often Forget," an event organized by Muslims for Progressive Values to highlight the achievements of human rights defenders.  Held in Los Angeles on January 24, the event included talks by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Ensaf Haider, author and wife of imprisoned Saudi activist Raif Badawi, Muslims for Progressive Values founder Ani Zonneveld, and others.

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.

"Celebration of Life: Remembering Those Lives We Often Forget"