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Mohamed Arafa, S.J.D. ’13, will teach an intensive course as a visiting assistant professor at The Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul School of Law in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The course is titled “Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Terrorism, & Islamophobia.” In addition to his work there, he has been invited to speak on the Arab Spring at a conference hosted by the Advanced American Latin Institute for Advanced Studies in Porto Alegre. Arafa will present a talk titled “Arab Spring Versus International Fall: Quo Vadis and The Seeds of Change?”

From there, Arafa will move to Brasilia, Brazil, where he has been invited to teach as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Brasilia School of Law. He will teach a course titled, “Islamic Law, Arab Law in a Comparative Perspective of the Middle East.”

Arafa will travel to Kuwait in May, where he has been invited to speak at the third annual conference of the Kuwait International Law School on Corruption and Ethics. His talk is titled “Whiter Corruption? Transparency and Integrity in Financial Markets and Corporate Governance.”

Arafa was invited to judge and sit on the final panel of the Middle East Regional Rounds of the Price Media Law Moot Court Program by the University of Oxford and the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy, hosted by the Arab Academy and Ain Shaims University Law School. In addition, he took part in coaching the team from Alexandria University Law School, which took part in the International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition. That competition is presented by the International Committee of the Red Cross and hosted by Cairo University Law School.

Arafa’s scholarship has recently been published in CALUMET – Intercultural Law and Humanities Review. The piece is titled “Insights on Divine (Islamic) Law: Islamophobia Versus Terrorism, Death Penalty, and Transitional Justice.”

Arafa will again teach the online course, “Comparative Middle Eastern Legal and Political Studies,” during Summer 2016 at IU McKinney, and he will return to the law school to teach a course on Islamic Law in Spring 2017. Arafa is an assistant professor of criminal law and criminal justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt.