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To fight fundamentalism and gender violence, ‘throw books,’ not bombs, Nobel laureate Ebadi says

  With passion and humor, Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi called for an intellectual response rather than military action against religious fundamentalism in a talk Thursday, Dec. 4, at Princeton University. “What counts is to eliminate the grounds that these type of people thrive on,” such as illiteracy, said […]