American University Expert Available to Discuss Democracy Movement in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Egypt
WHO: Shadi Mokhtari, assistant professor at American University’s School of International Studies, is a 2010 award winning author for her book "After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East." Mokhtari possesse extensive experience in human rights and women’s rights issues in the Middle East and Muslim world. Mokhtari can discuss the implications of disappearances suspected in Syria and other alleged serious violations employed in Libya and Yemen to quell, disperse, and frighten the government opposition.
WHAT: Available for radio, television, and print interviews
WHEN: April 27 – ongoing
WHERE: American University, in-studio, or via telephone.
Newswise — WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 27) – Shadi Mokhtari is an accomplished, recognized human rights scholar at American University’s School of International Service. She is the editor in chief of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights and the author of "After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights In America and the Middle East" (Cambridge, 2009), which was selected as the co-winner of the 2010 American Political Science Association Human Rights Section Best Book Award. Mokhtari teaches upper level courses in contemporary Islam and international relations and human rights. In the fall, she will teach “Protest and change in the Middle East” based on events taking place since the fall of the dictatorship in Tunisia and the domino effect it is having on regimes in Yemen, Syria, and Libya. Among other issues, Mokhtari can speak to the following:
• The significance of women's participation in Yemen, Libya, and Egypt• Syria’s coupling of reform concessions and repression under Assad’s government• How human rights, human rights advocates are at the fore of developments in the Middle East• The significance of other Arab governments taking a stance against Ghadaffi• Yemen's Islah (Islamist opposition party) and human rights• Emerging shift in U.S. treatment of human rights in the Middle East in its foreign policy• The impact of the post-9/11 era on current developments in the Middle East
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