Heba Morayef, researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division, investigates human rights abuses in Egypt and Libya. She produces detailed reports, news releases and op-eds based on her findings and conducts local and international advocacy. Before joining Human Rights Watch, Morayef worked at Amnesty International's International Secretariat in London as Campaigner on Libya and Tunisia. She has also worked as an attaché in the Humanitarian Diplomacy Unit at the International Committee of the Red Cross headquarters in Geneva, as Middle East program officer at Article 19 in London and UNDP's Human Rights Capacity Building Project in Cairo. Morayef holds a BA in Political Science with a specialization in Public International Law from the American University in Cairo and an LLM in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She speaks English, Arabic, French, and German.  

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Lockerbie And Libya's Other Internal Wars: The Families' Pain, Huffington Post, September 1, 2009