Biography Anisseh (Anicée) Van Engeland-Nourai (LL.M Harvard Law School; Ma Iranian Studies Paris III Sorbonne; Ma International Relations Paris II Assas; PhD Islamic World, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) is a Reader in International Law at the School of Law, University of Bedfordshire, UK. She previously held fellowship position at and the European University Institute. She is an international human rights jurist and a political analyst. She worked with ICRC, UNHCR, ILO, IOM and the French Minister of Foreign Affaires. She is a consultant for several universities, research centres and think thanks worldwide. Her fields of expertise are international human rights, human rights in , international humanitarian law, Islamic humanitarian law, refugees’ issues, terrorism and torture. She mainly works on the theories of the new hermeneutics of the Shari’a she used to encourage the reform of Iranian law to fit universal standards to the Islamic law of war. She has published articles in all these research fields. Her most recent publications include an article “Islam and the Protection of Civilians in the Conduct of Hostilities: The Asymmetrical war from the Transnational Terrorist Groups’ Viewpoint and from the Muslim Modernists’ Viewpoint”. She also has a forthcoming on combatants and civilians in the 21st century (Oxford University Press). Anisseh features in Who’s who in the World, Who’s who emerging leaders and the Dictionary of International Biography She also serves on the advisory board of the Irmgard Coninx Foundation in . Adel Maged: Gender violence prohibition in IHL and in Sharia law Supreme Court of Egypt, Durham University Biography Justice Adel Maged, LLB (Alexandria), LLM (Utrecht), Honorary Professor of Law at Durham University (UK).
Biography Anisseh (Anicée) Van Engeland-Nourai (LL.M Harvard Law School; Ma Iranian Studies Paris III Sorbonne; Ma International Relations Paris II Assas; PhD Islamic World, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) is a Reader in International Law at the School of Law, University of Bedfordshire, UK. She previously held fellowship position at and the European University Institute. She is an international human rights jurist and a political analyst. She worked with ICRC, UNHCR, ILO, IOM and the French Minister of Foreign Affaires. She is a consultant for several universities, research centres and think thanks worldwide. Her fields of expertise are international human rights, human rights in , international humanitarian law, Islamic humanitarian law, refugees’ issues, terrorism and torture. She mainly works on the theories of the new hermeneutics of the Shari’a she used to encourage the reform of Iranian law to fit universal standards to the Islamic law of war. She has published articles in all these research fields. Her most recent publications include an article “Islam and the Protection of Civilians in the Conduct of Hostilities: The Asymmetrical war from the Transnational Terrorist Groups’ Viewpoint and from the Muslim Modernists’ Viewpoint”. She also has a forthcoming on combatants and civilians in the 21st century (Oxford University Press). Anisseh features in Who’s who in the World, Who’s who emerging leaders and the Dictionary of International Biography She also serves on the advisory board of the Irmgard Coninx Foundation in . Adel Maged: Gender violence prohibition in IHL and in Sharia law Supreme Court of Egypt, Durham University Biography Justice Adel Maged, LLB (Alexandria), LLM (Utrecht), Honorary Professor of Law at Durham University (UK).
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