Noha Aboueldahab

Noha Aboueldahab is a nonresident senior fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs. She is also an assistant professor at Georgetown University in Qatar. Previously, she was a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and a fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.

Aboueldahab co-chairs the American Society of International Law’s Transitional Justice and Rule of Law interest group. 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).

Aboueldahab has authored many publications, including in the International Criminal Law Review. Her op-eds have been published by Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, among others. She serves on the editorial board of Hart Publishing’s Studies in International and Comparative Criminal Law and is a peer reviewer for several academic journals and think tanks. 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. Her forthcoming book examines how Arab diasporas have expanded the political, intellectual, and socio-legal spaces of transitional justice.

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.

Aboueldahab previously served as a fellow at the Brookings Doha Center and at the Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy program in DC. Since 2003, she has worked at various United Nations agencies and NGOs. Aboueldahab is regularly consulted by governments, civil society, international organizations, and media including Al Jazeera, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, and the Washington Post.