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Noura Erakat (born January 15, 1980) is a Palestinian-American human rights legal scholar and adjunct professor in the School of Integrative Studies at George Mason University.
Noura has been an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, George Mason University, and Georgetown University, with a major in International Studies. She is an outspoken critic of Israel.
Education and career
Noura Erekat was born on January 16, 1980 in Alameda County, California. She attended UC Berkeley and graduated with a baccalaureate degree in 2002, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was a summer fellow at UC Berkeley Human Rights Center in 2003. In 2005, she received her Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law Berkeley, and was awarded the Francine Diaz Memorial Scholarship. She received her LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center in 2012.
In 2010, she was a co-founder of Jadaliyya, an online journal in English, Arabic, and French that is affiliated with the not-for-profit Institute of Arab Studies, which operates in Washington, D.C., and Beirut.
Erekat served as "legal advisor to the House Oversight Committee" and previously taught at Georgetown University. From 2012-2014, she was the Friedman Fellow at Temple Beasley University School of Law. Noura Erakat has taught international studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. She is currently an Associate Professor at Rutgers University.
She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Policy Studies and as an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Trans-Arab Research, and is a policy advisor for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.
personal life
She is the sister of Youssef Erekat, better known by his YouTube nickname FouseyTube.
In June 2020, Ahmad, the cousin of Noura Erekat, was killed at a West Bank checkpoint near Abu Dis by Israeli army security guards as he was on his way to pick up his sister and some other family members from a hair salon in Bethlehem to attend her wedding. . The officers justified their actions as self-defense, saying that Ahmed Erekat had tried to run them over with his car, and Noura criticized that justification.
her opinions
Noura Erekat said in an interview with Al-Ahram that “with regard to law and politics, international law has always been seen as mandatory and positive. But history confirms that it may also be used as a tool of oppression and not only as a tool of liberation. Law does not apply itself, it is a dynamic object and it is a structure that reflects political negotiations, and it has many different bodies. It also has different approaches, because contrary to what many might think, there is no punishment when a state violates a law, and there is no way to force a state to change its behaviour.
Selected works
Academic books
Aborted state? The United Nations initiative and the new Palestinian crossroads. Co-edited with Moin Rabbani, 2013.
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. 2019.
Academic papers
Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising: Bridging the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement. Oxford Journal of International Refugee Law.
A New Phenomenon in the Age of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense. Arizona Law Review.
"United States v. Red Cross: Customary International Humanitarian Law and Universal Jurisdiction." Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 41 denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 225 (Winter 2013).
It's Not Wrong, It's Illegal: Placing the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response. Journal of the Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Vol. 11, No. 37, 2011-2012.
"The Elusive Search for Self-Defense in International Law." 36 Rutgers L.L. 164 (2009).
Stirring up the Arab-Israeli conflict: The politicization of US federal courtrooms. 2 Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law 27 (2009).
in print media
"The United States should stop funding Israel, or allow others to broker peace." The New York Times, 5 August 2014.
The Israeli Operation Isn't About Security: A Dissenting View. USA Today. July 31, 2014.
"Five Israeli Discussion Points on Gaza - Revealing Its Truth". The Nation. July 25, 2014.
“Structural Violence: BDS and the Erasure Resistance Movement.” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 16, 2014.
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