Noha Aboueldahab

Noha Aboueldahab is Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in Qatar where she teaches courses on international law and transitional justice. She is also a Senior Non-resident Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, and was previously a Fellow and Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She co-chairs the American Society of International Law’s Transitional Justice and Rule of Law interest group. Aboueldahab sits on the Editorial Board of Hart Publishing, Bloomsbury Academic Series on International and Comparative Criminal Law. She also sits on the Editorial Board of the Rowaq Arabi journal. Aboueldahab is the book review editor for the International Criminal Law Review journal. Previously, she was Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.

She is an award-winning specialist in transitional justice and is the author of “Transitional Justice and the Prosecution of Political Leaders in the Arab Region” (Hart, 2017).

Her second book (forthcoming with Oxford University Press) examines how Arab diasporas have expanded the political, intellectual, and socio-legal spaces of international law and transitional justice.

Aboueldahab has authored many publications, including in the Journal of International Criminal Justice and in the International Criminal Law Review. Her op-eds have been published by Foreign Policy magazine, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, among others. She is a peer reviewer for several academic journals and think tanks.

One of Aboueldahab’s priorities is to help generate a richer global exchange of ideas and analysis by drawing more attention to transitional justice developments in the Middle East and North Africa.

Since 2003, she has worked in the fields of international law, human rights, and development at various United Nations agencies and NGOs. Aboueldahab has also guest lectured courses on law and anthropology at Northwestern University and on law and development at Melbourne Law School, and served as junior faculty at Harvard Law School's Institute for Global Law and Policy. She is a recipient of research and travel grants from University College London, Durham Law School, the Modern Law Review, Harvard Law School, and the Middle East Studies Association. She is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, the Middle East Studies Association, the Law and Society Association, and the American Society of International Law.

Aboueldahab is regularly consulted by governments, civil society, international organizations, and media including Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post.