Noha Aboueldahab is Assistant Professor of International Law at Georgetown University in Qatar. An award-winning specialist in transitional justice, her work covers the fields of international law, foreign policy, human rights, and transitional justice. She is a scholar-practitioner in the socio-legal field of public international law and transitional justice.
Professor Aboueldahab’s first book, Transitional Justice and the Prosecution of Political Leaders in the Arab Region (Hart Publishing, 2017), challenges the practices and theories of transitional justice. It contends with urgent questions that emerged in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, as ousted leaders and other high-level politicians faced domestic prosecution. Her second book, Arab Diasporas, Justice, and Political Change is under contract with Oxford University Press. In it, she examines how Arab diasporas have shaped the political, intellectual, and socio-legal spaces of international law and transitional justice while pushing for political change in their home states.
Work authored by Aboueldahab has appeared in the International Journal of Transitional Justice, the Journal of International Criminal Justice, Third World Quarterly, the International Criminal Law Review, Foreign Policy magazine, Al Jazeera, and the Globe and Mail, among others.
Since 2003, Aboueldahab has worked for various United Nations agencies, NGOs, and think tanks. She is regularly consulted by governments, international organizations, and media outlets. She serves on the board of several academic and civil society organizations, including the editorial boards of the International Criminal Law Review and Hart Publishing’s International and Comparative Criminal Law series.
Professor Aboueldahab has guest lectured at Northwestern University and Melbourne Law School, and taught at Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy. She is 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 received her Ph.D. in law from Durham Law School.