178 ABA Journal Middle East articles.
After months of campaigning by civil rights activists, Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah made a surprise announcement yesterday that women would soon get the right to vote, albeit not for a…
Sep 26, 2011 10:02 PM CDT
An ongoing Internal Revenue Service probe of Americans who have evaded income tax by keeping assets in offshore bank accounts is now looking at a number of financial institutions in…
Sep 16, 2011 4:57 PM CDT
Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says two American hikers jailed for two years on espionage charges will be released as part of a “humanitarian gesture.”
Ahmadinejad told the Sep 13, 2011 11:28 AM CDT
Morocco’s recently approved constitution—granting new rights to women and minorities—is being praised by foreign policy experts hopeful that reforms could be a model for Arab monarchies facing uprisings.
The reforms,…
Jul 5, 2011 2:50 PM CDT
The Obama administration hopes to tap billions of dollars in frozen Libyan assets to help Libyans affected by the country’s civil war.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced today that…
May 5, 2011 12:04 PM CDT
A federal appeals court has reinstated the manslaughter indictments of four former Blackwater security guards accused of firing on unarmed Iraqi civilians and killing 17 people in September 2007.
The…
Apr 22, 2011 3:47 PM CDT
A CIA contractor detained in Pakistan on suspicion of murder has won his freedom after the payment of “blood money” to families of the victims.
Raymond Allen Davis was charged…
Mar 16, 2011 1:14 PM CDT
Updated: Lawyers and judges in Libya have joined the protests there, while the country’s justice minister has also taken a stand.
The justice minister, Mustafa Abud al-Jeleil, reportedly resigned to…
Feb 22, 2011 3:24 PM CST
A panel of legal experts that includes critics of former president Hosni Mubarak has been named to revise Egypt’s constitution.
The Constitutional Amendment Committee has been told to complete an…
Feb 17, 2011 11:30 AM CST
Updated: Thousands of lawyers and doctors joined protests in Egypt’s Tahrir Square on Thursday amid calls for Hosni Mubarak to resign.
On Friday, the protest turned to a celebration when…
Feb 10, 2011 5:57 PM CST
Despite reported turmoil in Egypt, it appears that the relatively small number of major international law firms with offices there have stayed out of the worst of the fray.
“Our…
Feb 2, 2011 7:50 PM CST
Sentenced to 11 years in prison and barred from practicing law or leaving the country for 20 years, an Iranian civil rights attorney known for her representation of women and…
Jan 13, 2011 12:28 AM CST
After five years as a prosecutor, it isn’t unusual to make a career move. But it is a rare step to head to Afghanistan to do so.
Moin Kahn isn’t…
Dec 28, 2010 2:30 PM CST
A Mayer Brown partner relied on To Kill a Mockingbird when he traveled to Iraq this fall to teach trial techniques to lawyers who advocate for the legal rights of…
Dec 21, 2010 12:29 PM CST
An Israeli attorney who earned her law degree from Bar Ilan University Law School in her home country is the first graduate of a foreign law school to win admission…
Oct 6, 2010 12:00 AM CDT
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