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Your fatwa does not apply here

The UN Human Rights Council has appointed Karima Bennoune as Special Rapporteur in the field of Cultural Rights. Bennoune is the author of the book, Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism.

By Deniz Kandiyoti and Karima Bennoune
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Karima Bennoune interviewing Malian lawyer Sara Keita Diakite inBamako, December 2012. Photo: author's own (c)

Karima Bennoune won the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction with her book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism. She spoke to Deniz Kandiyoti in August 2013 about the path that led her to collect these stories.

Deniz Kandiyoti: Your new book Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism gives a voice to the victims of fundamentalist violence in Muslim majority countries. What led you to this project?

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