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Lama Fakih

Lama Fakih

Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa Division Follow @lamamfakih

Lama Fakih is Human Rights Watch’s deputy director of its Middle East and North Africa division, and she is the director of the Beirut office. Prior to her current role, Fakih was a Senior Crisis Advisor in Amnesty International’s Crisis Response Program and was Human Rights Watch’s Syria and Lebanon researcher from 2011-2015. Previously, she worked as the Gender, Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) at the New York University School of Law. In 2008-2009 she was the Center Fellow at CHRGJ, where she worked on a range of human rights issues including corporate accountability and human rights and counter-terrorism. Additionally, Fakih was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research on the implementation of Islamic law in the Egyptian National Courts. Fakih holds a bachelor’s degree from Sarah Lawrence College and a law degree from New York University, where she was awarded the Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize for her work in the university’s International Human Rights Clinic. She speaks English and Arabic.

Articles Authored

  • November 2, 2018 Dispatches

    It’s Time For Lebanon to Reform its Abusive Libel Laws

  • October 30, 2018 Dispatches

    Lebanon Data Contradicts Political Fearmongering

  • October 19, 2018 Dispatches

    Lebanon’s Waste Crisis Hits Home

  • August 13, 2018 Commentary

    Syria’s ‘Disappeared’ Deserve Truth and Justice

    Published in The Globe and Mail
  • March 13, 2018 Commentary

    Russia Makes a Killing off its Military Support to Assad

    Published in Atlantic Council
  • February 1, 2017 Commentary

    Stop Holding Closed Military Court Trials

    Published in The Daily Star
  • January 28, 2017 Commentary

    End Trials of Civilians by Military Courts

    Published in Al-Akhbar
  • October 19, 2016 Dispatches

    Translate Outrage Over Aleppo Into UN General Assembly Action

  • January 19, 2015 Commentary

    Interview: Women Unequal Under Lebanon’s Law

  • September 24, 2014 Dispatches

    Dispatches: A Grim Prophesy, an Even Grimmer Reality in Syria

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Reports Authored

  • May 1, 2017

    Death by Chemicals

    The Syrian Government’s Widespread and Systematic Use of Chemical Weapons

  • September 13, 2013

    “No One’s Left”

    Summary Executions by Syrian Forces in al-Bayda and Baniyas

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