Noha Aboueldahab

Noha Aboueldahab is Assistant Professor of International Law at Georgetown University in Qatar. She is a scholar-practitioner in the field of public international law and transitional justice. Aboueldahab is also a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs.

Dr. Aboueldahab’s first book, Transitional Justice and the Prosecution of Political Leaders in the Arab Region (Hart Publishing, 2017), challenges the practices and theories of transitional justice. It contends with urgent questions that emerged in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab uprisings, as ousted leaders and other high-level politicians faced domestic prosecution. Her second book, Arab Diasporas, Justice, and Political Change is under contract with Oxford University Press. In it, she examines how Arab diasporas have shaped the political, intellectual, and socio-legal spaces of international law and transitional justice while pushing for political change in their home states.

Since 2003, Aboueldahab has worked for various United Nations agencies, NGOs, and think tanks. She is regularly consulted by governments, international organizations, and major media outlets. She serves on the board of several academic and civil society organizations, including the editorial boards of the International Criminal Law Review and Hart Publishing’s International and Comparative Criminal Law series.