Noura Erakat

Noura Erakat was born on January 16, 1980, in Alameda County, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was named a UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow in 2003.[9] In 2005, she received her Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law and was awarded the Francine Diaz Memorial Scholarship Award.[10] She completed her L.L.M at Georgetown University Law Center in 2012.[4]

In 2010 she was a co-founder of Jadaliyya, an online magazine published in English, Arabic, and French, and which is affiliated with the non-profit Arab Studies Institute, operating in Washington, D.C. and Beirut.

Erakat has served as "legal counsel to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee"[3] and has previously taught at Georgetown University.[3][4] From 2012–2014, she was a Freedman Fellow with Temple University Beasley School of Law.[11] Erakat also has taught international studies at George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia. She is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University.[12]

She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and serves as an associate professor at Rutgers University,[13] is a member of the Board of Directors for the Trans-Arab Research Institute,[14] and is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.[15]

She is the sister of Yousef Erakat, better known by his YouTube moniker, FouseyTube.[16][17]

In June 2020, Erakat's cousin Ahmed's car collided with a military checkpoint in the West Bank near Abu Dis, following which he was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.[18] The officers justified their actions as self-defense, saying that Ahmed attempted to ram his car into them, but Noura has disputed this.[19] Forensic Architecture and Al-Haq launched an investigation into the killing of Ahmed using 3D modeling, fieldwork, geolocation, synchronization, OSINT, and shadow analysis, and concluded that the car's collision with the checkpoint was an accident, that the Israeli shooting constituted an extrajudicial killing and excessive use of lethal force, and that the Israeli military had denied Ahmed urgent medical care.[20]

• Biography – George Mason University
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