Here Untold Stories from the fight against muslim fundamentalism at this years book festival held in austin. This is just under 45 minutes long. Karima bennoune is a professor of International Law at California Davis School of law. He grew up in algeria and the United States and lives in northern california. The topic of your fatwa does not apply here Untold Stories from the fight against muslim fundamentalism is a personal one for. Her father was an outspoken professor at the university of algiers who face Death Threats in the 1990s but continued speaking out about fundamentalism and terrorism. In writing this book Karima Bennoune set out to meet people who did what her father did back then, to garner greater International Support that algerian democrats received in the 1990s. She graduated from a joint program in meeting eastern and north African Studies in michigan, from the law school and graduate school as all graduates certificates in womens studies. Terp publications have appear
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Introduce our distinguished speaker. A veteran of more than 20 years of Human Rights Research and activism is a professor of law at ucdavis who grew up in algeria in the United States served as a Legal Advisor Amnesty International todd wreckers in university of michigan why the publisher of fundamentalism and counterterrorism please welcome her professor. [applause] is an honor to be here i would like to think the Commonwealth Club for inviting me and for court the being the event and also the lovely introduction so what i want to do is share some excerpts from my book is the one to explain why i read it wrote the book it is a very big project interviewed 100 people of muslim heritage from afghanistan to molly specifically to learn about the work to combat extreme is them and persecution at the end of the fundamentalist those people were incredibly diverse i interviewed loggers, housewives, sexual rights activists people who excuse themselves to pray in the middle of the interviews an
Professor, there are standards that apply that actually are major constraints on womens time, energy and in come. That is not a bad thing but it was something we have to be aware of and what is a bad thing, we see this with Hillary Clinton constantly, when people are conflating the assessment of womens qualifications with their assessment of womens be. I was talking about this topic recently with someone had mentioned she had just gone to an exhibit at one of the museums that included several courses, things women used to wear 200 years ago to make themselves more attractive, isnt it great we dont have corsets anymore . Her companions that if you stop and think about it, maybe it was easier when women had corsets because if you think about it, you dont have to work very hard if you wear a corset. It was painful but you put it on and you done. Now the expectation is we have to retain course at like bodies without the help of the corsets. What do you have to do instead . Diet, exercise w
History. He wins and 72 over mcgovern , the biggest landslide in history. In fact, at dec. 72 he says someone asked not to write a book about all of this. And having the most successful presidency of all time. But, boy, how the mighty have fallen. That story, of constantly looking at the interest, how someone can be the most powerful person and take that kind of cataclysmic fall, and these tapes are forming of just a part of the story. They need to be supplemented with memo, oral history. I wanted to think john dean for coming here to austin and providing your insight and firsthand knowledge and stealing the buck. [applause] and he wrote a biography of warren harding. [laughter] [inaudible question] [applause] [inaudible conversations] and that was a conversation about the nixon presidency. We will be back with more live coverage from the texas book festival after this short break. Coming up next a memoir. [inaudible conversations] interested in American History . Watch American Histor