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Lina Murr Nehmé (born 1955) is a French-Lebanese author and professor at the
Lebanese University
The Lebanese University (LU; ) is the only state-funded public university in Lebanon. It was established in 1951.
The university's main campus was originally located in Beirut, but a few satellite campuses were opened due to travel restriction ...
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Work and Positions
Religious Extremism
Over the course of several books (particularly "Fatwas et Caricatures"), Lina Murr Nehme analyzed the
fatwa
A fatwa (; ; ; ) is a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia) given by a qualified Islamic jurist ('' faqih'') in response to a question posed by a private individual, judge or government. A jurist issuing fatwas is called a ''mufti'', ...
s, sermons, and other materials being distributed by
Islamic extremists. Using her knowledge of
Arabic
Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...
, she made key texts available to the non-specialist public.
Her analyses cover topics such as how extremists justify attacks such as the
Montauban shootings,
describe the networks of Islamism in the West and their financing, and discuss the
human rights
Human rights are universally recognized Morality, moral principles or Social norm, norms that establish standards of human behavior and are often protected by both Municipal law, national and international laws. These rights are considered ...
records of those who finance extremist clerics, for example the case of
Raif Badawi
Raif bin Muhammad Badawi (, also transcribed Raef bin Mohammed Badawi; born 13 January 1984) is a Saudi writer, dissident and activist, as well as the creator of the website ''Free Saudi Liberals''.
Badawi was arrested in 2012 on a charge of ...
.
Defence of Cultural Heritage
In 2012, Lina Murr Nehmé took action to defend
archeological sites
Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology ...
in
Beirut
Beirut ( ; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, which makes it the List of largest cities in the Levant region by populatio ...
scheduled for destruction. After an initial phase of
political lobbying, including meeting with the Minister of Culture, she organized a demonstration on 21 April 2012 centered on the situation of Plot 1474, which contains archaeological remains. In statements to the press, she asserted that the profits of private corporations should take second place to the preservation of
cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by socie ...
.
Hostages
She has also taken stands on the issue of war
hostage
A hostage is a person seized by an abductor in order to compel another party, one which places a high value on the liberty, well-being and safety of the person seized—such as a relative, employer, law enforcement, or government—to act, o ...
s from the
Lebanese War, noting that many families are still in uncertainty about the fate of a loved one. She demands that any hostage still alive be freed, and that information be released on those that are dead.
["Les otages libanais dans les prisons syriennes, jusqu'à quand ?" Lina Murr Nehmé]
She also took position publicly for the full investigation of a purported
mass grave
A mass grave is a grave containing multiple human corpses, which may or may Unidentified decedent, not be identified prior to burial. The United Nations has defined a criminal mass grave as a burial site containing three or more victims of exec ...
discovered in Chebaniyeh,
Lebanon
Lebanon, officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia. Situated at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian Peninsula, it is bordered by Syria to the north and east, Israel to the south ...
. This followed a 2008 mass graves scandal that started with the publication of an article by journalist Manal Chaaya revealing the location of a purported mass grave at Halate, Lebanon.
Right to Privacy
In 2011, she took a stand on the
right to privacy
The right to privacy is an element of various legal traditions that intends to restrain governmental and private actions that threaten the privacy of individuals. Over 185 national constitutions mention the right to privacy.
Since the globa ...
, noting how significant quantities of data on
Lebanese citizens were being collected by the government, and in some cases leaked to external parties.
References
External links
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1955 births
Living people
Lebanese novelists
20th-century Lebanese historians
Lebanese women novelists
Lebanese women historians
French critics of Islam
20th-century French historians
French women historians
21st-century French historians
21st-century French women writers
20th-century French women writers
French women novelists
Academic staff of Lebanese University