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Noura Erakat
Noura Erakat
	Erakat in 2014
Born	Noura Saleh Erakat; January 16, 1980 (age 44); Alameda County, California, U.S.
Occupation	Activist, attorney
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA, JD); Georgetown University (LLM)
Relatives	Yousef Erakat (brother); Saeb Erakat (uncle); Ahmad Erekat (cousin)
Website
	www.nouraerakat.com

Noura Saleh Erakat (/ˈnʊərə ˈɛrəkæt/, NOOR-ə ERR-ə-kat; Arabic: نورة صالح عريقات; born (1980-01-16)January 16, 1980)^[1] is a Palestinian-American activist, university professor, legal scholar, and human rights attorney.^[2]^[3] She is currently an associate professor at Rutgers University, specializing in international studies.^[4] Her primary focus is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and she is a vocal critic of Israel.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Education and career

Noura Saleh Erakat was born on January 16, 1980, in Alameda County, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2002, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was named a UC-Berkeley Human Rights Center Summer Fellow in 2003.^[9] In 2005, she received her Juris Doctor from the UC Berkeley School of Law and was awarded the Francine Diaz Memorial Scholarship Award.^[10] She completed her L.L.M at Georgetown University Law Center in 2012.^[11]

In 2010, she was a co-founder of Jadaliyya, an online magazine published in English, Arabic, and French, and which is affiliated with the non-profit Arab Studies Institute, operating in Washington, D.C. and Beirut.

Erakat has served as "legal counsel to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee"^[3] and has previously taught at Georgetown University.^[3]^[11] From 2012–2014, she was a Freedman Fellow with Temple University Beasley School of Law.^[12] Erakat also has taught international studies at George Mason University at Fairfax, Virginia.

She currently serves on the board of the Institute for Policy Studies and serves as an associate professor at Rutgers University,^[13]^[14] is a member of the Board of Directors for the Trans-Arab Research Institute,^[15] and is a policy advisor with Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.^[16]

Erakat is author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine.^[17]

In May 2023, a Canadian MPP, Sarah Jama, came under criticism for retweeting a tweet that Noura Erakat made. The tweet, which B’nai Brith described as “unacceptable,” praised Khader Adnan, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a designated terrorist organization, as a ”martyr.”^[18]

In August 2024, she was said to be among three potential Palestinian American running mates for Dr Jill Stein.^[19]

Personal life

She is the sister of Yousef Erakat, better known by his YouTube moniker, FouseyTube.^[20]^[21] She is the cousin of Ahmed Erakat, a Palestinian man who was shot and killed by Israeli police after his vehicle rammed into one of the barriers at a military checkpoint near Abu Dis, a village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on 23 June 2020. Noura has disputed the intentionality of this act.^[22]