I am a professional with fourteen years of relevant work, academic, and teaching experience in the following fields: genocide studies, crimes against humanity, human Trafficking & forced labor, the international criminal justice system, international terrorism, violent crimes committed against children, freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) rights, and religious persecution. I hold a Ph.D. in International Criminal Law and a Master’s in International Humanitarian Law.

 

I have worked as a lecturer and guest professor in several law schools since 2011. I teach courses in Public International Law, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Refugee Law. I am also a member of the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars (GAHTS). GAHTS is committed to understanding the historical, political, structural, and cultural components of human trafficking and to producing research-guided advocacy papers to influence the global community.

 

I authored the book Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Did the Islamic State Commit Genocide against Christians in Iraq? Its main goal was to determine the legal nature of, typification of, and criminal responsibility for criminal acts that ISIL/DAESH perpetrated against civilians in Iraq, focusing on violations against Christians.

 

I have served as an intern in several capacities, such as the Permanent Mission of Brazil to the United Nations in Geneva and the War Crimes Research Office in Washington-DC. I have already volunteered in different projects assisting poor and marginalized communities. From July to September 2023, I served syrian refugees as an English language and photography teacher at a community center in Mafraq, Jordan. In September 2019, I served the Refugees 4 Refugees NGO in Greece, providing practical and logistical support to refugees and asylum seekers in a refugee camp on Samos Island. From February 2018 to December 2021, I served an NGO in Istanbul that assists refugees, asylum seekers, undocumented migrants, and unaccompanied children. There, I taught International Refugee Law to the NGO's volunteers and trained them on the practical aspects of refugee protection in Turkey. I also directly provided logistical support to undocumented children.

 

I am also a humanitarian photographer. I want people to see the suffering in the world through the eyes of my lens. I also want access to areas of international conflict so that my photographs can be used as criminal evidence. I want to use my storytelling skills to inform, provoke discussion, and inspire action.

 

With my extensive experience, I can contribute to relevant organizations in the following ways:

 

1. Teaching and providing sound and timely legal professional consultation in my expertise areas;

 

2. Helping them with war crimes investigations and documentation of scenes of war crimes or other grave human rights violations

 

3. Helping them interact with criminal justice system authorities to challenge impunity by strengthening the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of cases involving crimes perpetrated by terrorist groups and cases involving violence against women and children;

 

4. Conducting research; monitoring results and assessing programs’ impact; training legal practitioners; convening meetings and events; organizing and delivering workshops, conferences, and public activities; and producing legal reports, memos, and submissions;

 

5. Helping to identify key underlying issues related to the commercial sexual exploitation of children in assigned areas/regions Region; influencing municipal governmental policies; increasing state actors' transparency and accountability toward sexual crimes committed against children;

 

6) Partnering with frontline organizations, key stakeholders, the private sector, civil society actors, the media, and grassroots organizations in assigned areas/regions; locally manage and implement assigned programs;

 

7) Helping them identify key underlying issues related to religious discrimination and persecution worldwide; influencing governmental policies concerning freedom of religion; increasing state actors’ transparency and accountability toward violations of religion, belief, and conscience; and monitoring the state of FoRB rights in assigned countries.