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Manal Omar, a Palestinian-American peace advocate, whose life's work embodies the very essence of justice, healing, and empowerment....
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Intisar A. Rabb
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Rabb is a professor of law at Harvard Law School, and director of its Islamic Legal Studies Program: SHARIAsource.
Manal Omar is the founder and CEO of Across Red Lines.
She also holds an appointment as a professor of history and as the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She has published the monograph Doubt in Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press 2015), an edited volume, Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought (with Michael Cook et al., Palgrave 2013), and articles on Islamic constitutionalism, Islamic legal maxims, and on the early history of the Qur'an text.
She received a BA from Georgetown University, a JD from Yale Law School, and an MA and PhD from Princeton University. She has conducted research in Egypt, Iran, Syria, and elsewhere. Manal Omar is the associate vice president for the Middle East and Africa Center.
Previously, she was regional program manager for the Middle East for Oxfam—G