The arc of pride Chibli Mallat A sea of ignorance separates China from the Middle East. This is the sad reality resulting from centuries of slow displacement of the silk road as the exclusive Western passage of China to the ME, and from the ME to China. The passage to China from the Middle has […]
Early efforts to establish a constitutional dialogue in Bahrain led by US Assistant Secretary of State Jeffrey Feltman with the help of RN Chairman Prof. Chibli Mallat and the Harvard law school team who worked on a Constitutional Options study, were recently revealed in a feature story in Global Post. In a comment on the story, Mallat […]
“Constitutional Options for Bahrain”, a detailed study prepared by RN Chairman Chibli Mallat and Harvard Law student Jason Gelbort was published today in the online version of the Virginia Journal of International Law (VJIL).– Based on extensive research including seven background papers carried out by a working group of 22 law and graduate students at Harvard, the initiative was focused on […]
Background papers for the Constitutional Options paper on Bahrain, to appear shortly in the Virginia Journal of International Law online, can be accessed at the links below. They were prepared by the Harvard Law School Bahrain study group coordinated by Jason Gelbort and directed by Chibli Mallat. III 1. The Executive III 2. The Legislative Branch III 3. The Judiciary III […]
To: All Member States of the UN Human Rights Council Call for United Nations Human Rights Council Special Session on the Human Rights Situation in the Syrian Arab Republic Excellency, As Human Rights non-governmental organizations from all regions of the world, we express our serious concerns over the deteriorating human rights situation in Syria since […]




