Attorney Zaher named Yale World Fellow
New Haven, Conn., U.S.A. - Sawsan Zaher of Adalah: The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, has been named a 2013 Yale World Fellow, announced Yale University President Richard C. Levin.
A leading voice for the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, Zaher is the Director of the Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Unit for Adalah. As a human rights lawyer, she has litigated precedent-setting constitutional law cases before the Israeli Supreme Court, fighting for justice and equality for men and women.
Zaher is among 16 World Fellows selected this year, from a pool of about 2,500 applicants. This year's cohort brings the total number of Yale World Fellows since the program's inception in 2002 to 238 Fellows, representing 81 countries.
The Yale World Fellows Program is the University’s signature global leadership development initiative and a core element of Yale’s ongoing commitment to internationalization. Each year, the University invites a group of exemplary mid-career professionals from a wide range of fields and countries for an intensive four-month period of academic enrichment and leadership training.
This year’s World Fellows include an Egyptian diplomat, a Dutch documentary filmmaker, a managing editor with The Economist Group in London, and an advocate for transparency in the Nigerian oil sector.
“The Yale World Fellows Program consistently attracts outstanding talent,” said World Fellows program director Michael Cappello, professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. “The 16 individuals selected this year are each poised to become even more effective change-makers in their societies and around the world. This unique leadership training opportunity will no doubt inspire their many future contributions to the global community.”
Four previous World Fellows hailed from Israel:
Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director, EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East
Hassan Jabareen, Director, Adalah
Orit Marom-Albeck, Partner, Shibolet & Co.
Adi Pundak-Mintz, Partner, Gemini Israel Venture Capital Funds
The mission of the Yale World Fellows Program is to cultivate and empower a community of globally engaged leaders committed to positive change through cross-disciplinary dialogue and action. It has at its core three main goals: to provide advanced training to emerging leaders from diverse disciplines and countries, to link this network of world leaders to each other and to Yale, and to expand and deepen international understanding at Yale.
For more information, please contact:
Leslie Powell, +1 203 432 1916
Salah Mohsen, +972 52-5950922, salah@adalah.org
Visit http://www.yale.edu/worldfellows for more information.
