Mohamed 'Arafa, S.D.J. '13, Upcoming Speaking Engagements
03/31/2017
Professor Mohamed ‘Arafa, S.J.D. ’13, who is teaching Islamic Law at IU McKinney during the Spring 2017 semester, has several speaking engagements planned.
‘Arafa’s upcoming presentations include:
• A talk titled “Transitional Justice: The Seeds of Change - Secular Law or Divine (Islamic) Law, Egypt: Quo Vadis?” on April 3 at Texas A&M University School of Law.
• A talk titled “Pineapples in Paradise: Does Islam Support Human Rights and Why is That a Good Thing?" on April 6 at Creighton University School of Law. That same day at the university’s Department of Political Science, ‘Arafa will present a talk titled, "The Arab Spring, Radicalism, Terrorism: Is it One Box?"
• A talk titled "Egypt's Rule of Law: A Question of Non-Sense?" on April 11 at the University of Illinois in Chicago at the College of Liberal Arts and Science’s History and Political Science Department. In addition, he will present "Islam and Trump's Administration: How It Will Work?" during a weekly Islamic Law Seminar at U of I.
• A talk titled "Human Rights in Secular and Muslim Countries: Where Are They Going?" on April 12, at the University of Toledo.
‘Arafa’s recent speaking engagements include:
• A conference call on March 22 with the National Security Committee of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association on “The Methods of Induction, Recruitment, and Operations of The Islamic State (Da'esh/ISIS) in Egypt.”
• A discussant in the March 23 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 25th anniversary conference at the IU Maurer School of Law. He also spoke at IU Maurer on March 24 during the Faculty/Graduate Colloquium on the topic “Human Rights in Islamic Law: Perplexing and Beyond the Zero-Sum Game.”
• A talk titled “Terrorism under International Criminal Law: Egypt’s War on Terrorism-Quo Vadis?” at Wayne State University School of Law on March 28.
In addition, a piece ‘Arafa co-authored with Professor Mietek Boduszynski, titled “Understanding Egyptian Policy toward Libya, has been published by The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy.
‘Arafa will teach an online course during Summer 2017 on Comparative Middle Eastern Law
