Biography
Noura Erakat is a human rights attorney and an Associate Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice. Her research interests include human rights and humanitarian, refugee and national security law and critical race theory.
She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya, editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies and co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as legal counsel for a congressional subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as legal advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organiser of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Her video documentaries include Gaza In Context and Black Palestinian Solidarity.
Her writings have been widely published in the national media and academic journals in the United States. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award. Other scholarly publications include: Racism, whiteness, and burnout in antiracism movements: How white racial justice activists elevate burnout in racial justice activists of color in the United States in Ethnicities; New Imminence in the Time of Obama: The Impact of Targeted Killings on the Law of Self-Defense in the Arizona Law Review; and Overlapping Refugee Legal Regimes: Closing the Protection Gap During Secondary Forced Displacement, in the Oxford Journal of International Refugee Law.
She has received numerous awards, including Quds Award for Activism by the American Muslims for Palestine (2017), Activist of the Year Award by The Palestinian American Women's Association (2016), and Activist of the Year Award by The Washington Peace (2014).
SAF participation: March Meeting 2022