Dr. Ahmad Amara
Ahmad is a human rights advocate and a graduate of the joint PhD program in History and Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University. Before pursuing his PhD degree on changing property relations under the Ottoman land reform among tribal communities in Southern Palestine, Ahmad served for three years as a clinical instructor and global advocacy fellow with Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program. Amara has a number of publications, on law, history and property rights
Items by Dr. Ahmad Amara
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- December 1, 2016 Dr. Ahmad Amara
Dispossession by the law: How the Israeli judicial system utilises Ottoman land law to expel and dispossess the Palestinian Bedouin
Much has been said about the role that the Israeli Supreme Court and the judiciary generally have played in Judaising the Palestinian space, by confirming Israeli governmental practices of dispossessing Palestinians of their land, major house demolitions and frequent displacement. This role was apparent in the first years of...