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Noura Erakat

Noura Erakat
Erakat in 2014
Erakat in 2014
BornNoura Saleh Erakat
(1980-01-16) January 16, 1980 (age 45)
Alameda County, California, U.S.
OccupationActivist, attorney
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA, JD)
Georgetown University (LLM)
RelativesYousef Erakat (brother)
Saeb Erakat (uncle)
Ahmad Erekat (cousin)
Website
www.nouraerakat.com

Noura Saleh Erakat (/ˈnʊərə ˈɛrəkæt/, NOOR-ə ERR-ə-kat; Arabic: نورة صالح عريقات; born (1980-01-16)January 16, 1980)[1] is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney.[2][3] She is currently a professor at Rutgers University, specializing in international studies.[4] Her primary focus is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and she is a vocal critic of Israel.[5][6][7][8]

Education and career

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Noura Saleh 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.[11]

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][11] From 2012–2014, she was a Freedman Fellow with Temple University Beasley School of Law.[12] Erakat also has taught international studies at George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia.

She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and serves as an associate professor at Rutgers University,[13][14] is a member of the Board of Directors for the Trans-Arab Research Institute,[15] and is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.[16]

In 2019, Erakat published the book Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine at Stanford University Press.[17]

In May 2023, the Canadian MPP Sarah Jama, a 28-year old, black, disability rights activist, came under criticism for retweeting a tweet that Noura Erakat wrote. The tweet, which the lobby group B'nai Brith Canada described as “unacceptable,” praised Khader Adnan, a Palestinian activist and prisoner in West Bank who died after an 87-day hunger strike in protest against Israel’s systematic and discriminatory use of administrative detention to imprison Palestinians without charge or trial and to "to expose the basic injustice in Israel’s military justice system and its casual denial of basic freedoms".[18][19][20] His cruel treatment had been condemned by many human rights groups and UN human rights experts.[21]

Erakat was said to be among three potential Palestinian American running mates for Dr Jill Stein, the left-wing Green Party's nominee for president of the United States in the 2024 election.[22]

Personal life

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She is the sister of Yousef Erakat, better known by his YouTube moniker, FouseyTube.[23][24] She is the cousin of Ahmed Erakat, a Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli police after his vehicle rammed into one of the barriers at a military checkpoint near Abu Dis, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 23 June 2020. Noura has disputed the intentionality of this act.[25]

Selected works

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Academic books

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Academic papers

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Interviews

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Radio

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Video

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Notes

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  1. ^ @4noura (January 16, 2019). "For past 3 years my one bday wish was to complete the book project while not cutting corners and still remaining hu…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "George Mason University, New Century College Faculty: Noura Erakat". George Mason University. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c "Faculty Highlight: Noura Erakat". George Mason University. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014.
  4. ^ "Erakat, Noura". crimjust.rutgers.edu. Retrieved November 5, 2023.
  5. ^ Welsh, Theresa (September 5, 2014). "West Bank Settlements Overshadow New Arab Housing in Jerusalem". U.S. News & World Report.
  6. ^ Rudoren, Jodi (August 26, 2014). "Cease-Fire Extended, but Not on Hamas's Terms". New York Times.
  7. ^ "Israel Must Stop Its Campaign of Terror". The Nation. July 30, 2014.
  8. ^ "Large group of U.S. scholars endorse academic boycott of Israel". CBS News/Associated Press. December 17, 2013.
  9. ^ "UC Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow". UC Berkeley. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014.
  10. ^ "Berkeley Law School". Berkeley Law School. Archived from the original on July 14, 2014.
  11. ^ a b "Georgetown Bio". Georgetown University.
  12. ^ "Current Freedman Fellows". Temple University. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
  13. ^ "Board Members". Institute for Policy Studies.
  14. ^ "Noura Erakat". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2022.
  15. ^ "Board of Directors: TARI". TARI.
  16. ^ "Policy Advisor: Al Shabaka". alshabaka.
  17. ^ Erakat, Noura (2019). Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-9825-9.
  18. ^ Erakat, Noura (May 15, 2023). "Grieving Palestinian Life". Jadaliyya. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
  19. ^ "Ontario political party under fire for retweet calling Islamic Jihad terrorist 'martyr' – The Israel National News". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  20. ^ Hass, Amira (May 4, 2023). "Adnan's Lone Strike Exposed the Difficulties of Collective Palestinian Struggle". Haaretz. Retrieved May 6, 2023. The fact that he reached 86 days without food or medicine – his longest hunger strike – indicates not only his determination, but also Israeli authorities' conscious decision to avoid compromising with him even if it leads to his death… Since 1967, there've been several mass hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners in protest of harsh prison conditions. At the end of 2011, Adnan was the first to go on a personal hunger strike against his administrative detention. His strike received a tremendous amount of attention, and he was eventually released – only to be arrested again three years later, and then again in 2018 and 2021… Adnan's mission to expose the basic injustice in Israel's military justice system and its casual denial of basic freedoms… His individual strikes have been successful to some extent: His 2011-2012 individual hunger strike led to a general hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners demanding an end to administrative detentions and an improvement to deteriorating prison conditions.
  21. ^ "Death of Khader Adnan highlights Israel's cruel treatment of Palestinian prisoners". Amnesty International. May 15, 2023. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
  22. ^ "Jill Stein recruiting Palestinian Americans for her running mate position". NBC News. August 9, 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
  23. ^ Muller, Nat. "Reviews and Critique: Jadaliyya". Portal 9. Archived from the original on December 16, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2013.
  24. ^ "Jadaliyya: Noura Erakat". Jadaliyya.
  25. ^ "Palestinian Scholar Noura Erakat: Israeli Forces Killed My Cousin on His Sister's Wedding Day". Democracy Now!.

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