Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here Paperback by Karima Bennoune

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2014-12-09)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 416 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780393350258
• Item Weight: 344.74 grams
• Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.0 cm

"Compelling, meticulously researched…[S]hould be required reading." —Washington Post

In Pakistan, Faizan Peerzada staged a performing arts festival despite bomb attacks. In Algeria, radio comedian Mohamed Ali Allalou lampooned fundamentalists on the airwaves. Karima Bennoune illuminates these and other inspiring stories of the Muslim writers, artists, doctors, lawyers, activists, and educators who often risk death to combat the rising tide of religious extremism within their own countries. From Karachi to Tunis, Kabul to Tehran, these heroic trailblazers represent one of the best hopes for ending fundamentalist oppression worldwide.

About the Author

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.