Zaha Hassan

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Middle East Program
Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Education

BA, Political Science and Near East Languages and Civilizations, University of Washington, Seattle
JD, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
LLM, Transnational and International Law, Willamette University School of Law

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Zaha Hassan is a human rights lawyer and a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focus is on Palestine-Israel peace, the use of international legal mechanisms by political movements, and U.S. foreign policy in the region. Previously, she was the coordinator and senior legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team during Palestine’s bid for UN membership, and was a member of the Palestinian delegation to Quartet-sponsored exploratory talks between 2011 and 2012.

She regularly participates in track II peace efforts and is a contributor to The Hill and Haaretz. Her commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Al Jazeera English, CNN, and others.

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