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Mohamed Arafa, S.J.D. ’13, has been invited to speak in Groningen, The Netherlands, on December 10 during the evening program of Amnesty International’s commemoration of International Human Rights Day. This year’s theme is “freedom of expression” and Amnesty International has organized a writing marathon to commemorate the day. Arafa will be speaking about “Human Rights Status Quo in the Middle East After the Arab Spring.”

Arafa has been invited to teach at the University of Groningen’s inaugural Winter School on Human Rights and Islamic Law December 8 through 17. He took part in the university’s “Globalization Studies Summer School on Arab Spring Transitions” in Sousse, Tunisia in August 2014.

Arafa’s article “Whither Egypt? Against Religious Fascism and Legal Authoritarianism: Pure Revolution, Popular Coup, or a Military Coup d’état?” has been published in the Fall 2014 issue of the Indiana International and Comparative Law Review.

Finally, his video interview posted to I-CONnect, the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and ConstitutionMaking, has been featured by the United National Constitutional Support newsletter, “The UN Constitutional,” Fall/Winter 2014 edition.

Arafa is an assistant professor of criminal law and criminal justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt. He will teach Islamic law as an adjunct professor at IU McKinney in Spring 2015.