CLICK HERE to register and join us as we hear from Fateh Azzam, retired Middle East Regional Representative of the U.N. High Commission for Human Rights, on the topic: “We should be afraid: Israel, Trump, and populist nationalism.”
More about our distinguished speaker:
Fateh Azzam Is a Palestinian human rights researcher and consultant, mostly retire after an international career that spanned work in civil society, philanthropy, academia and the United Nations. He served as founding director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut, Middle East Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo and director of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. He volunteers as Board Chair of Visualizing Palestine and as a member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion in The Hague, and the London-based Syria Legal Development Programme. Fateh has published numerous studies and book chapters on human rights and humanitarian law, the responsibility to protect, the Arab and Palestinian human rights movement and citizenship in Palestine and the Arab region. He authored two plays, Ansar and Baggage, and most recently adapted and co-Directed The Gaza Monologues in Maine where he He lives in Georgetown.
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