Mohamed Arafa, S.J.D. '13, Invited to Teach Again at University of Groningen
11/17/2015
Professor Mohamed Arafa, S.J.D. ’13, has been invited back to teach at the University of Groningen’s Winter School on Human Rights. It’s the second time the school has been offered, and Arafa will be teaching on the topics of Islamic law and human rights and international human rights law among other topics.
Arafa also has been invited to be the faculty member tasked with training and coaching the team from Alexandria University Law School that will take part in the International Humanitarian Law Moot Court Competition. The event, scheduled for December, is presented by the International Committee of the Red Cross and hosted by Ain Shams University.
Professor Arafa also published a book chapter titled “What’s New in the Residential Care of the Elderly in the Arab and Islamic World? The Case Of Egypt” in the recently published Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons: International Perspectives.
Arafa will spend Spring 2016 as a visiting professor at the Univates University Faculty Of Law in Brazil, where he will teach two courses on human rights and Islamic law, and legal cultures in the Arab World. In addition, he will pursue research on legal systems in Brazil and will teach the online course “Comparative Middle Eastern Legal and Political Studies during Summer 2016 at IU McKinney.
