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New State Department Program Helps Arab, Female Attorneys
Published in Lab Law Weekly, May 22nd, 2009
Twenty-one young female attorneys from Kuwait, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and West Bank are in court today in Jordan. No, they are not on trial. They are conducting one. These women are participating in moot court -- preparing legal briefs, testimony and arguments in a mock trial of famed poet Khalil Ghibran's love, Egyptian author May Ziadeh -- as a way to become better legal practitioners.
It is part of WILpower, a new Women In Law program developed and managed by Washington-based AED with support from the U.S. Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI).
"Facilitating a moot-court session is just one way that AED is...
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Source: Lab Law Weekly (2009-05-22)
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