Noura Erakat

Noura Erakat was born on January 16, 1980, in Alameda County, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a baccalaureate in 2002, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was named a UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow in 2003.[10] In 2005, she received her juris doctorate from the UC Berkeley School of Law and was awarded the Francine Diaz Memorial Scholarship Award.[11] She completed her L.L.M at Georgetown University Law Center in 2012.[4]

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][4] 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 is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University.[13]

She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and serves as an associate professor at Rutgers University,[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]

She is the sister of Yousef Erakat, better known by his YouTube moniker, FouseyTube.[17][18]

In June 2020, Erakat's cousin Ahmed was shot and killed at a West Bank checkpoint near Abu Dis by IDF security guards while on his way to transport his sister and some other family members from a Bethlehem hair salon to her wedding.[19] The officers justified their actions as self-defense, saying that Ahmed Erakat attempted to ram his car into them, but Noura has disputed this.[20]

• Biography – George Mason University
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