Discussion and Response from Prof. Ariel Katz (U of Toronto, Law)
Date and time
Mon, Feb 24, 2025 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EST
About Our Speaker
Fateh Azzam Is a Palestinian human rights researcher and consultant. His professional experience spanned work in civil society, philanthropy, academia and the United Nations, having served as founding director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at the American University of Beirut, Middle East Regional Representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, director of the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies Program at the American University in Cairo and director of the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq. He volunteers as Board Chair of Visualizing Palestine and member of the Advisory Board for the Institute for Statelessness and Inclusion in The Hague. Fateh has published studies and book chapters on human rights and humanitarian law, the responsibility to protect, the Arab and Palestinian human rights movement and citizenship in Palestine and the Arab region. He is also author of two plays, Ansar and Baggage, and most recently adapted and co-Directed The Gaza Monologues in Maine where he lives.