Professor Bennoune a virtual participant in symbolic reparations events in Mali

Professor Karima Bennoune participated virtually in an event on March 30 connected to a symbolic reparations ceremony hosted by the president of the Republic of Mali in Bamako. 

The ceremony was organized by the Trust Fund for Victims, jointly with the Malian authorities, in connection with the 2012 armed occupation of  Timbuktu and the destruction of several sacred buildings, including nine on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Bennoune took part in a side event to the ceremony, a presentation on “Destruction of Cultural Heritage: Repair and Prevent -- Lessons from Timbuktu,” hosted by the Trust Fund and UNESCO.

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.