Nada Mourtada-Sabbah

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Nada Mohsen Mourtada-Sabbah is the secretary general of the University Leadership Council, a group working to improve educational opportunities in the United Arab Emerates. She has also served as the vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs of the American University of Sharjah (AUS). She was one of the first faculty members to join AUS when it opened in 1997.^[1]

Education[]

Mourtada received a BA in 1991 from the American University in Beirut, where she was the recipient of the Penrose Award^[2] which is awarded to the "outstanding graduate of each faculty on the basis of scholarship, character, leadership, and contribution to university life". She holds a PhD in public law with distinction from the University of Paris II.^[3]

Career[]

Mourtada-Sabbah was subsequently elected president of the AUS Faculty Senate, and served as the founding chair of the Department of International Studies for three years, successfully overseeing its accreditation. She was then appointed as the assistant to the chancellor for development and alumni affairs from 2007 to 2009 and held this position until the AUS board of trustees appointed her to the newly created position of the vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs.^{[citation needed]}

In her capacity as vice chancellor for development and alumni affairs, Mourtada-Sabbah built up the Office of Development and Alumni Affairs from scratch, spearheading the university's endeavors to further institutional advancement efforts and interact with industry and the community at large, as well as creating a database of alumni and prominent "Friends of the University" AUS now has 1500 corporate partners and a number of prominent "Friends of the University", who are actively engaged with the University and contribute to furthering its educational mission.^{[citation needed]}

Mourtada-Sabbah was promoted through the ranks at AUS from assistant professor to full professor of public law and international studies.^{[citation needed]}

In 2011, she addressed a conference hosted by American University of Sharjah (AUS) that examined how Barack Obama's policies effected the Middle East.^[4]

Other positions[]

Mourtada-Sabbah also serves on the board of trustees for the College of Saint Benedict,^[5] one of the leading Catholic liberal arts universities in the United States.

She is the Secretary-General of the University Leadership Consortium,^[6] and in this position she is working to improve academic education^[7] and defended the academic strides made by universities in the UAE.^[8]

Work[]

Mourtada-Sabbah is known for advancing education opportunities in the United Arab Emirates and her work on the political question.^{[citation needed]}

Publications[]

Her books include

• Globalization and the Gulf. John W. Fox, Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Mohammed Al Mutawa. London: Routledge. 2006. ISBN 0-203-96530-2. OCLC 74753151.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • Reviewed in Middle East Journal ^[9]
• Fisher, Louis (2001). Is war power a political question?. Nada Mourtada-Sabbah. Huntington, NY: Novinka Books. ISBN 1-56072-987-2. OCLC 47643029.
• The political question doctrine and the Supreme Court of the United States. Nada Mourtada-Sabbah, Bruce E. Cain. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2007. ISBN 978-0-7391-5912-5. OCLC 608128080.CS1 maint: others (link)

• Fisher, Louis; Mourtada-Sabbah, Nada (2002). "Adopting In God We Trust as the U.S. National Motto". Journal of Church and State. 44 (4): 682–83. doi:10.1093/jcs/44.4.671 – via HeinOnline.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

Awards and honors[]

She is the recipient of the "AUS Excellence in Teaching Award" and the "AUS Excellence in Service Award."^{[citation needed]}

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