Cheryl Benard Explained

Cheryl Benard
Birth Place:New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Occupation:Novelist, researcher
Genre:Fiction, non-fiction
Education:University of Vienna (PhD)
American University of Beirut (BA)
Spouse:Zalmay Khalilzad
Children:Alexander Benard
Maximilian Benard

Cheryl Benard (born 1953) is an American-Austrian writer and novelist as well as political and social scientist. She is the wife of Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Afghanistan and Iraq. She and Khalilzad have two sons, Alexander Benard and Maximilian Benard.

Career

Benard worked as an actress in German films as a child. She later took a BA from the American University of Beirut and went on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. She taught political science at the University of Vienna. Later, she served as research director of the Boltzmann Institute of Politics, a European think tank.

Presently, Benard is president of Alliance for the Restoration of Cultural Heritage (ARCH) International, a DC-based non-profit research and advocacy organisation dedicated to the support of cultural activism, specifically in post-conflict situations.

Writings

Benard is a novelist and a widely published author on topics including popular sociology, refugees, women in nation-building, youth radicalisation in the European Diaspora, and humanitarian aid. Her books have been translated into many other languages and some were bestsellers in Europe.

She is a feminist writer. She and Edit Schlaffer contributed the piece "Benevolent despotism versus the contemporary feminist movement" to the 1984 anthology , edited by Robin Morgan.[1] Benard's most recent book, Eurojihad – Patterns of Islamist Radicalization and Terrorism in Europe, with Angel Rabasa, was published by Cambridge University Press in November 2014.

Controversy

Benard's Austrian bank account was frozen in February 2014.[2] This happened as part of an investigation into allegations of money laundering by Benard's husband, former U.S. official Zalmay Khalizad. Benard and Khalilzad were subsequently cleared by the Austrian court system and US authorities and the freezing of her accounts was found to have been illegal. Prior to the announcement of the court decision, information about the investigation was leaked to the press, allegedly the result of court documents having been disposed of unshredded in the general trash and found by scavenging bloggers.[3]

Books

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Table of Contents: Sisterhood is global . Catalog.vsc.edu . 2015-10-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151208065459/https://catalog.vsc.edu/lscfind/Record/154795/TOC#tabnav#tabnav . 2015-12-08 . dead.
  2. -->,https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/2566831 Ex top US diplomat suspected of money laundering: Ex US envoy to Afghanistan, Iraq, UN investigated for suspected money laundering in Austria. September 8, 2014. February 4, 2021. Associated Press.
  3. News: Austrian court lifts bank account freeze for ex-US diplomat Zalmay Khalilzad. . September 11, 2014-- -- original. It was "revised" -->,January 8, 2015. February 4, 2021.
  4. News: Turning on the Girls. The New York Times. March 25, 2001. Ivry . Sara.

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