Noura Erakat is a Palestinian American scholar of the Middle East who will begin teaching as tenure track faculty at George Mason University in Fall 2014. [1] She is a human rights attorney and activist who specializes in refugee law, humanitarian law, national security law, the Palestinian-Israel conflict, and social justice. [1]
Erakat received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 (Phi Beta Kappa), her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law in 2005 and her L.L.M from Georgetown University Law Center (with distinction and Dean’s List) in 2012.[1][2] She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies,[3]is a member of the Board of Directors for the Trans-Arab Research Institute, [4] and is a policy advisor with the  Al-Shabaka Network.[5] Erakat is also one of six core figures who in September 2010 launched Jadaliyya, an ezine in English, Arabic, and French that is an initiative of the non-profit Arab Studies Institute (ASI) in Washington, D.C. and Beirut, Lebanon.[6][7]
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