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Professor Mohamed Arafa, S.J.D. '13, to Teach Online Course during Summer 2015
02/12/2015
Professor Mohamed Arafa, S.J.D. ’13, will teach the online course “Comparative Middle Eastern Legal and Political Studies” during July and August 2015 for students of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
The course will introduce students to key issues in Middle East legal systems and politics by drawing upon cutting-edge scholarships written from a diversity of disciplinary perceptions, Professor Arafa said. The course will emphasize the main tendencies and movements in modern Arabian world history. To learn more about the course, contact Professor Arafa at marafa@iu.edu.
Professor Arafa also has been busy preparing for a talk, and having his scholarship published.
He will give an informal speech on the Arab Spring and the fight against terrorism at the University of Illinois College of Law during the “Law and War: International Humanitarian Law Workshop” taking place February 14 and 15. His talk is titled “Charlie Hebdo’s Attacks, Crime Against Humanity: Islamophobia Versus Terrorism and Proposed Agenda to Battle Universal Terrorism.”
Professor Arafa’s recent op-ed on the retrial of Muslim Brotherhood followers has been published by JURIST.org. and his comments on the terrorist attack in Paris has been published by the Comparative Law Prof Blog, which is edited by IU McKinney Professor Shawn Boyne, among others.
Finally, Pepperdine University School of Law Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law, Religion, and Ethics andthe Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law and ConstitutionMaking acknowledged that Professor Arafa’s article titled “Whither Egypt? Against Religious Fascism and Legal Authoritarianism: Pure Revolution, Popular Coup, Or A Military Coup D’État?” which was published by the Indiana International & Comparative Law Review (Vol. 24, No. 4, 2014), was one among a list of articles that “deals with how the practice of law might be a religious calling, put theory into action, governments and human rights issues around the globe to bring peace, justice and the rule of law.”
Arafa is an assistant professor of criminal law and criminal justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt. He is teaching Islamic law as an adjunct professor at IU McKinney during the Spring 2015 semester.
