On UC Davis Podcast, Professor Bennoune Discusses Her Efforts to Help Afghan Artists

On episode 8 of the UC Davis podcast The Backdrop, Professor and U.N. Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights Karima Bennoune speaks to host Soterios Johnson about her efforts to help get artists and cultural workers out of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. Listen to the episode.

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.

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