Hilmi M. Zawati

Hilmi M. Zawati, D.C.L., Ph.D., (Arabic: حلمي زواتي; born in 1953 in Nablus)^[1] is an international criminal law and human rights jurist and the current Chair of the International Centre for Legal Accountability and Justice (ICLAJ). Zawati has been a speaker and author on a number of hotly debated legal issues.^[2] He has addressed major academic and professional gatherings in a number of Middle Eastern countries, Africa, Europe, the United States, and in Canada. His current primary teaching and research areas are: International Criminal Law; International Gender Justice System; International Human Rights Law; Islamic Law of Nations (siyar); and International Environmental Law of Armed Conflict.^[3]

References

1. Abdul-Fattah, Ali, “Ishraqah” Al-Ra’i Al-Aam, Monday, 25 April 1994, p. 22; Babteen Encyclopaedia for contemporary Arab Poets, VI vols. (Kuwait: Babteen Association, 1995) II: 2, pp. 158-159; Ḥamadah, Muhammad Umar, A Bibliographical Dictionary of Palestinian Elders, III vols, (Dimashq : Dār Qutaybah, 1985) II: 215-217.
2. Mustafa, Shakir, Investigating the Complete Literary works of Hilmi Zawati, El-Masri, 22 September 2000, p. 21; Sumrain, Raja, "Semantic features of Hilmi Zawati Poetry", in R. Sumrain, Taht al-Mijhar: Majmu’a min al-Abhath wal-Maqalat al-Naqdiyya (Amman: Dar al-Yara’, 2003) pp. 93-153; Sadduq, Radi, Palestine Poets in the Twentieth Century (Beirut: al-Mu’ssasah al-Arabiyya lil-Dirasat wal-Nashr, 2000) pp. 204-205.
3. Suqayriq, Tal’at, Encyclopaedia of Palestinian Writers (Damascus: Dar al-farqad, 1998) pp. 67-68; http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?aid=3829&pc=10

External links

• Diwan al-Arab, 8 July 2006. (in Arabic).
• Universal Encyclopedia of Arabic Poetry, 3 April 2008. (in Arabic).
• Ministry of Culture, Jordan, 30 September 2010 (in Arabic).