Richard Benkin
Richard Benkin is an American human rights activist , co-founder of Interfaith Strength , journalist , writer and lecturer .
Benkin was working on his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan and wrote the dissertation The Social and Cultural Development of Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe on Jews in Eastern Europe.
Benkin campaigned for the freedom of Bangladeshi journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury after he was imprisoned for writing articles warning of the rise of Islamic radicals. Choudhury was released in 2004.
Prices
- “Special US Congressional Recognition” 2005
- Nominated for 2006 Lorenzo Natali Prize for journalism
- Special Recognition 2007, Bangladesh Editors Forum
- Special Recognition 2007, Bangladesh Minority Lawyers Association
Works
- The Social and Cultural Development of Jewish Communities in Eastern Europe, 1976 Doctoral Dissertation, University of Michigan Press
- The Battle Beneath Jerusalem (Dhaka Press, 2009)
- Our Fight for Freedom: The Story of a Falsely Imprisoned Muslim and one Jews's Fight to Free Him
- A Quiet Case of Ethnic Cleansing (monograph on Bangladeshi Hindus), published in Toronto and Mumbai , 2008
- Sociology: A Way of Seeing, Wadsworth Pub Co (July 1981) ISBN 978-0-534-00929-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://interfaithstrength.com/images/RichardBio.htm
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/heather-robinson/independent-journalist-un_b_579477.html
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benkin, Richard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strength, Interfaith |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American human rights activist, co-founder of Interfaith Strength, journalist, writer, and lecturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |