About the Author A human rights defender and democracy advocate, Dr. Muhamad Mugraby is also a lawyer with an international practice. He is a former lecturer on civil rights, legal philosophy and private international law at the Lebanese University Law School. He was educated in Beirut, at the Lebanese University Law School and the American University, and in New York at Columbia University Law School where he received several fellowships and the degrees of Doctor of Juridical Science (JSD), Master of Laws (LLM) and Master of Comparative Law (MCL). For many decades, Dr. Mugraby has strongly ca...