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Noura Erakat
Erakat in 2014
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Born Noura Saleh Erakat
(1980-01-16) January 16, 1980 (age 45)
Alameda County, California, U.S.
Occupation Activist, attorney
Education University of California, Berkeley (BA, JD)
Georgetown University (LLM)
Relatives Yousef Erakat (brother)
Saeb Erakat (uncle)
Ahmad Erekat (cousin)

Noura Saleh Erakat (born January 16, 1980) is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, and human rights lawyer. She teaches international studies at Rutgers University. Her work often focuses on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

Education and Career

Noura Erakat was born in California. She went to the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her first degree in 2002. She later received her law degree from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 2005. In 2012, she completed her advanced law degree (called an L.L.M.) at Georgetown University Law Center.

In 2010, she helped start Jadaliyya, an online magazine that publishes articles in English, Arabic, and French. This magazine is connected to the Arab Studies Institute, a non-profit group.

Noura Erakat has worked as a legal advisor for the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee. She has also taught at other universities, including Georgetown University and George Mason University.

Currently, she is an associate professor at Rutgers University. She also serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and is a policy advisor for Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.

In 2019, Erakat wrote a book called Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. This book explores how law is used in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In 2023, a Canadian politician, Sarah Jama, shared a tweet written by Noura Erakat. This tweet caused some discussion. Erakat was also considered as a possible running mate for Dr. Jill Stein, who ran for president in the United States.

Personal Life

Noura Erakat has a brother named Yousef Erakat, who is well-known on YouTube as FouseyTube.

Her cousin, Ahmad Erekat, died in 2020 near a military checkpoint in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Noura Erakat has shared her view that his death was not intentional.

Selected Works

Noura Erakat has written many academic papers and articles for newspapers and magazines.

Academic Books

  • Aborted State? The UN Initiative and New Palestinian Junctures. Co-edited with Mouin Rabbani, 2013.
  • Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019.

Academic Papers

  • "Palestinian Refugees and the Syrian Uprising: Filling the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement." Oxford Journal of International Refugee Law, Forthcoming.
  • "New Imminence in the Time of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self Defense." Arizona Law Review, Forthcoming.
  • "The US v. The Red Cross: Customary International Humanitarian Law & Universal Jurisdiction." Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 41 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y 225 (Winter 2013).
  • "It's Not Wrong, It's Illegal: Situating the Gaza Blockade Between International Law and the UN Response." UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law, Vol. 11, No. 37, 2011–2012.
  • "Operation Cast Lead: The Elusive Quest for Self-Defense in International Law." 36 Rutgers L. Rec. 164 (2009).
  • "Litigating the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Politicization of U.S. Federal Courtrooms." 2 Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law 27 (2009).

Print Media

  • "U.S. Should Stop Funding Israel, or Let Others Broker Peace." New York Times, August 5, 2014.
  • "Israeli operation not about security: Opposing view." USA Today, July 31, 2014.
  • "Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked." The Nation, July 25, 2014.
  • "Structural Violence on Trial: BDS and the Movement to Resist Erasure." Los Angeles Review of Books, March 16, 2014.

Interviews

Noura Erakat has been interviewed on various radio and television programs.

Radio

  • Israel's greatest threats are internal, not Hamas or Iran, says former prime minister Ehud Barak CBC, June 5, 2018
  • To The Point: "A New Shot at Peace Talks: Will it be Different this Time?" KCRW, July 31, 2013.
  • Beyond Beijing: "Palestine seeking statehood bid in UN." China Radio International, November 21, 2012.

Video

  • "Gaza in context.", gazaincontext.com, July 2016.
  • "Debating the tactics and ethics of warfare on both sides of Mideast conflict." PBS NewsHour, July 24, 2014.
  • "Gaza Debate: As Palestinian Deaths Top 100, Who's to Blame for Escalating Violence? What Can Be Done?." Democracy Now!, July 11, 2014.
  • Up With Chris Hayes: "Obama wraps up first trip to Israel as president." MSNBC, March 22, 2013.
  • Up With Chris Hayes: "What sparked escalation of violence in Israel and Gaza." MSNBC, November 17, 2012.
  • "The Law in These Parts: A Discussion." WNET (PBS Thirteen)

See also

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  • Rula Hassanein
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