2013
Sawsan Zaher
Director of Social, Economic and Cultural Rights Unit
Adalah Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel
Sawsan Zaher is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, a feminist, and a human rights lawyer currently with Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, serving as the Director of the Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights Unit since 2005. Through her work with Adalah, Sawsan litigated several landmark cases before the Israeli Supreme Court challenging discrimination and racism against the Palestinian minority in Israel.
Sawsan has received several fellowships and honors, including being selected as a 2015 Young Global Leader, an integral part of the World Economic Forum, a 2012 Fellow at the Women in Public Service Project at Wellesley College, and a 2008 Fellow of the Public Law Program in the Public Interest Law Institute at Columbia University. In January 2015, Sawsan was appointed to serve as the Acting General Director of Women's Center for Legal Aid and Counseling (WCLAC) in Ramallah, Palestine.
The 2013 World Fellows
A diplomat who serves as Egypt’s representative to the Syrian opposition, a Dutch documentary filmmaker, a managing editor with The Economist Group in London, and an advocate for transparency in the Nigerian oil sector are among those selected as Yale’s World Fellows this year. “The 2013 class joins the extraordinary global network of World Fellows that Yale has been cultivating for more than a decade,” said former Yale President Richard C. Levin. “From the start, our aim has been to encourage leaders to continue learning about important global issues throughout their lives and careers, and to develop a deeper understanding of the perspectives of others.” “The Yale World Fellows Program...Read More
