Your fatwa does not apply here
- Posted by Maryam Namazie
- On September 5, 2013
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- Karima Bennoune
The brilliant Karima Bennoune has just published her first book: “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism.”
Inspired by her father Mahfoud Bennoune’s work in Algeria, it tells the stories of progressive people (journalists, artists, women’s rights activists…) who have risked everything to stand up to extremism and terror – stories rarely heard in the West. She interviewed nearly 300 people of Muslim heritage from almost 30 countries – from Afghanistan to Mali – for her book.
I would think this book is a must read; I’ll be getting my copy immediately.
By the way, you can also visit her site to see additional material not in the book and read about her work in an interview on Open Democracy.
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