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Shadi Mokhtari Assistant Professor Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

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Shadi Mokhtari
SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
East Quad Building 208
Degrees
PhD & LLM, York University; JD, University of Texas; MIA, Columbia University; BA, 麻豆视频作品

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Bio
Shadi Mokhtari teaches at the School of International Service at 麻豆视频作品 in Washington D.C., where she focuses on the politics of human rights, political change in the Middle East, and political Islam. She is the author of After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in America and the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2009 and 2011) which was the co-winner of the 2010 American Political Science Association鈥檚 Human Rights Section Best Book Award.

Since 2009, Professor Mokhtari鈥檚 research has focused on the human rights dynamics of protest movements and transitions in the Middle East, particularly in Iran, Egypt and Tunisia. In 2012, she concluded a study assessing Islamic Reformists鈥, dissident clerics鈥, jailed activists,鈥 and popular responses to the Iranian government鈥檚 repression of the Green Movement titled 鈥溾橳his Government is Neither Islamic Nor A Republic鈥: Responses to the 2009 Post-Election Crackdown鈥. Her current research develops a typology of Middle Eastern experiences of the international human rights framework titled "Human Rights as Mockery of Morality, Manifesting Morality and Moral Maze鈥欌. Part of this research was recently published in the Journal of Human Rights.

Professor Mokhtari currently teaches 鈥淛ustice, Ethics, and Human Rights,鈥 鈥淩ights and Political Change in the Middle East,鈥 鈥淧ost-Revolutionary Iran,鈥 and 鈥淗uman Rights: Politics and Practice鈥.
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Teaching

Fall 2024

  • SISU-270 Justice, Ethics & Human Rights

  • SISU-270 Justice, Ethics & Human Rights

  • SISU-294 Comm Service Learning Project: Justice, Ethics & Human Rights

Spring 2025

  • SISU-270 Justice, Ethics & Human Rights

  • SISU-270 Justice, Ethics & Human Rights

  • SISU-379 Topics Human Rgts/Iden/Culture: Post-Revolutionary Iran