AFTER ABU GHRAIB Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East

Mokhtari, Shadi

ISBN 10: 0521767539 / ISBN 13: 9780521767538

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2009

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8vo 8" - 9" tall; 264 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AFTER ABU GHRAIB Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521767539
• ISBN 13: 9780521767538
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 1.2 pounds

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Synopsis

Mokhtari’s book examines the changes in the human rights discourse in the United States and the Middle East after the maltreatment and torture of the U.S. captives in the Abu Ghraib and other prisons became public. Through the text analysis of speeches and news reports, as well as in-depth interviews with human rights NGO officials, she makes a thorough assessment that both credits and criticizes the NGOs. Mokhtari shows that human rights advocacy has been successful in pushing the U.S. courts and Congress to recognize the relevance of international human rights law.

About the Author

Shadi Mokhtari is Assistant Professor at the School of International Service at American University. She currently works with a domestic violence nonprofit organization in the Washington DC area and serves as the managing editor of the Muslim World Journal of Human Rights. She holds PhD and LLM degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University; a JD from the University of Texas School of Law; a master's in international affairs from Columbia University; and a BA from American University. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and has contributed chapters to books, including Islamic Law and International Law ('The Iranian Search for Human Rights within an Islamic Framework') (2007), Islamic Feminism and the Law ('Towards a New Agenda for Islamic Feminism:Clearing the Human Rights Minefield') (2008), and Migrant Women's Search for Social Justice ('Migrant Women's Interests and the Case of Shari'a Tribunals in Ontario') (2009). In 2006, she was selected as a 'new voices' panelist at the American Association of International Law Conference and was awarded honorable mention for the John Peter Humphreys Fellowship from the Canadian Council on International Law.