From Staff Reports

Azadeh Shahshahani, legal and advocacy director for Project South, will present a discussion of detention of Palestinian children by Israeli security forces in a free public talk at noon Nov. 14 in the UNC Asheville Sherrill Center's Mission Health Mountain View Room.

 Shahshahani formerly served as national security/immigrants’ rights project director with the ACLU of Georgia, and she is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. Through the NLG, she participated in international delegations, including a delegation focused on the situation of Palestinian political prisoners. Shahshahani also serves as chair of Georgia Detention Watch, co-chair of the U.S. Human Rights Network Working Group on National Security, and on the Advisory Council of the American Association of Jurists.   

Shahshahani has a master’s degree in modern Middle Eastern and North African studies from the University of Michigan, and earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School where she was articles editor for the Michigan Journal of International Law. 

This event is co-sponsored by UNCA’s Belk Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities, and by Just Peace for Israel/Palestine of Western North Carolina. For more information, contact Belk Distinguished Professor Mark Gibney, visit  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it " target="_blank"> This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call 250.3870.