Professor Mohamed 'Arafa, S.J.D. '13, to Teach at Northumbria University
06/02/2017
Professor Mohamed ‘Arafa, S.J.D. ’13, will teach and speak at the Northumbria University Summer Academy in Contemporary Challenges to International Criminal Justice. During a session dedicated to the topic, “Challenges in Prosecuting Terrorism and Religiously Motivated Violence,” Professor ‘Arafa will offer “Some Preliminary Reflections on New Terrorism Legislation in Egypt and Tunisia” on June 14.
The following day, Professor ‘Arafa will give a talk at the University of Manchester School of Law, titled, “Global Terrorism: Policy Failure or Security Failure?” His talk is hosted by the Manchester International Law Centre.
On June 21, Professor ‘Arafa will speak in Bologna, Italy, at the European Academy of Religion, A “Zero Conference” on research in the religious fields. His talk, titled “The Meaning of ‘Religion’ in the Egyptian Legal System” is a part of a panel discussion with the topic, “The Meaning of ‘Religion’ in Multicultural Societies Law: A Reconstruction in the Case Law.”
From Bologna, Professor ‘Arafa will travel to Parma to give a talk on “The Role of Al-Azhar in Egypt in Understanding Islamic Law” at the University of Parma.
Professor ‘Arafa will spend July 4 through 10 teaching in Croatia at the Cres Summer School on the topic of Transitional Justice & The Politics of Memory. He will teach on the topic of Islamic Transitional Justice.
His article, titled “Transitional Justice, The Seeds of Change: Secular Law or Divine (Islamic) Law, Quo Vadis?” will be published by The Canadian Journal For Middle East Studies in Fall 2017 and will be reprinted by Creighton International & Comparative Law Review.
Professor ‘Arafa will teach Comparative Middle Eastern Law online this summer at IU McKinney as an adjunct professor and will resume his teaching for the next two years as a visiting professsor at the University of Brasilia in Brasilia and Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre
‘Arafa is an assistant professor of criminal law and criminal justice at Alexandria University Faculty of Law in Egypt.
