Shadi Mokhtari

Shadi Mokhtari is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University. She is the Author of After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and Middle East, which was the co-winner of the 2010 American Political Science Association’s Best Human Rights Book Award. She is also the Editor in Chief of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights.

Cairo optimism: the people are now part of the equation

The group had a task in hand - defending protestors detained, facing charges or otherwise targeted by the SCAF - and they exuded confidence in their ability to methodically take on the military’s repression.

By Shadi Mokhtari

/ 24 Jun 2012

George Bush and the turn to human rights in the Arab world

Some have linked the emergence of a strong human rights agenda in the Arab world with the policies of the last American president. In a way they are right: post-9/11 abuses overseen by the Bush administration were the tragedy that brought to light the urgency of claiming rights.

By Shadi Mokhtari

/ 25 Feb 2011