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Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Karima Bennoune
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Description for Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
Hardcover. Eye-opening accounts of heroic resistance to religious extremism. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2; JPFR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 169 x 32. Weight in Grams: 738.
In Lahore, Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a “dark corner” by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Senegal, wheelchair-bound Aissatou Cissé produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices faced by disabled women and girls. In Algeria, publisher Omar Belhouchet and his journalists struggled to put out their paper, El Watan (The Nation), the same night that a 1996 jihadist bombing devastated their offices and killed eighteen of their colleagues. In Afghanistan, Young Women for Change took to the streets of Kabul to denounce sexual harassment, undeterred by threats. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Abdirizak Bihi organized ... Read more
In Lahore, Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada resisted being relegated to a “dark corner” by staging a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Senegal, wheelchair-bound Aissatou Cissé produced a comic book to illustrate the injustices faced by disabled women and girls. In Algeria, publisher Omar Belhouchet and his journalists struggled to put out their paper, El Watan (The Nation), the same night that a 1996 jihadist bombing devastated their offices and killed eighteen of their colleagues. In Afghanistan, Young Women for Change took to the streets of Kabul to denounce sexual harassment, undeterred by threats. In Minneapolis, Minnesota, Abdirizak Bihi organized ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
416
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393081589
SKU
V9780393081589
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Ref
99-17
About Karima Bennoune
Karima Bennoune is a professor of international law at the University of California–Davis School of Law. She grew up in Algeria and the United States and now lives in northern California.
Reviews for Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here
"A powerful and captivating tribute to those brave women and men who have stood up to fundamentalist violence in their own countries from Afghanistan to Mali, this book will hopefully inspire a new and improved international human rights response."
Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights "This work redefines courage in a ... Read more
Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights "This work redefines courage in a ... Read more