Noura Erakat

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Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat at New America Foundation event.jpg
BornNoura Saleh Erakat
(1980-01-16) January 16, 1980 (age 41)
Alameda County, California
OccupationActivist, Attorney
CitizenshipAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
UC Berkeley School of Law (JD)
Georgetown University Law Center (LLM)
RelativesYousef Erakat (brother)
Saeb Erakat (uncle)
Website
www.nouraerakat.com

Noura Erakat (/ˈnʊərə ˈɛrəkæt/ NOOR-ə ERR-ə-kat Arabic: نورة صالح عريقات‎; born January 16, 1980)[1] is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney.[2][3] She has served as an associate professor at Rutgers University, George Mason University, and Georgetown University, specializing in international studies.[4] She is a vocal critic of Israel.[5][6][7][8][9]

Education and Career[]

Noura Erakat was born on January 16, 1980, in Alameda County, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a baccalaureate in 2002, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was named a UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow in 2003.[10] In 2005, she received her juris doctorate from the UC Berkeley School of Law and was awarded the Francine Diaz Memorial Scholarship Award.[11] She completed her L.L.M at Georgetown University Law Center in 2012.[4]

In 2010 she was a co-founder of Jadaliyya, an online magazine published in English, Arabic, and French, and which is affiliated with the non-profit Arab Studies Institute, operating in Washington, D.C. and Beirut.

Erakat has served as "legal counsel to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee"[3] and has previously taught at Georgetown University.[3][4] From 2012-2014, she was a Freedman Fellow with Temple University Beasley School of Law.[12] Erakat also has taught international studies at George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia.[13]

She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies,[14] is a member of the Board of Directors for the Trans-Arab Research Institute,[15] and is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.[16]

Personal life[]

She is the sister of Yousef Erakat, better known by his YouTube moniker, FouseyTube.[17][18]

In June 2020, Erakat's cousin Ahmed was shot and killed at a West Bank checkpoint near Abu Dis by IDF security guards while on his way to transport his sister and some other family members from a Bethlehem hair salon to her wedding.[19] The officers justified their actions as self-defense, saying that Ahmed Erakat attempted to ram his car into them, but Noura has disputed this.[20]

Selected works[]

Academic books[]

Academic papers[]

Print media[]

Interviews[]

Radio[]

Video[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ https://twitter.com/4noura/status/1085584968896704512?s=21
  2. ^ "George Mason University, New Century College Faculty: Noura Erakat". George Mason University. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Faculty Highlight: Noura Erakat". George Mason University. Archived from the original on 2014-10-17.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Georgetown Bio". Georgetown University.
  5. ^ "Noura Erakat: List of Publications". Noura Erakat Official Website.
  6. ^ Welsh, Theresa (Sep 5, 2014). "West Bank Settlements Overshadow New Arab Housing in Jerusalem". U.S. News & World Report.
  7. ^ Rudoren, Jodi (August 26, 2014). "Cease-Fire Extended, but Not on Hamas's Terms". New York Times.
  8. ^ The Editors (July 30, 2014). "Israel Must Stop Its Campaign of Terror". The Nation.
  9. ^ "Large group of U.S. scholars endorse academic boycott of Israel". CBS News/Associated Press. December 17, 2013.
  10. ^ "UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow". UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14.
  11. ^ "Berkeley Law School". Berkeley Law School. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14.
  12. ^ "Current Freedman Fellows". Temple University.
  13. ^ "Noura Erakat".
  14. ^ "Board Members". Institute for Policy Studies.
  15. ^ "Board of Directors: TARI". TARI.
  16. ^ "Policy Advisor: Al Shabaka". alshabaka.
  17. ^ Muller, Nat. "Reviews and Critique: Jadaliyya". Portal 9.
  18. ^ "Jadaliyya: Noura Erakat". Jadaliyya.
  19. ^ [1]
  20. ^ "Palestinian Scholar Noura Erakat: Israeli Forces Killed My Cousin on His Sister's Wedding Day".

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