Engy Abdelkader is a legal fellow at ISPU and a human rights attorney based in the New York/New Jersey area. With more than ten years of legal experience, Ms. Abdelkader has represented clients in a number of notable cases involving a variety of legal matters including civil rights, immigration, racial and ethnic justice and foreclosure defense. Additionally, Ms. Abdelkader is a co-founder and the first president of the New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association (NJMLA). Ms. Abdelkader has worked as a cooperating attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Arab-American Justice Project run by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in New York, and the Center for Constitutional Rights, and has also volunteered with the U.S. Department of Justice Community Relations Service as a Cultural Competency Trainer on Islam, American Muslims and Arab Americans for state and federal law enforcement officials. Ms. Abdelkader enjoys an extensive public speaking record on a variety of legal and news subjects at law schools, universities and community forums. With her legal background in civil rights, Ms. Abdelkader serves on the Board of Directors of KARAMAH -- Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights as well as the Executive Board of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

EDUCATION

J.D. Rutgers University School of Law

AREA OF EXPERTISE

American Muslims , Civil Rights , Immigration , Muslim Women , Arab Americans ,

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

• Why We Must Learn America's Islamic History
• A Few Good Muslim Men -- Honoring Those Who Honor Women
• Adverse Human Rights and Other Consequences of the Anti-Sharia Ban
• Islamophobic Bullying in Our Schools
• American Muslim Sister-Wives? Polygamy in the American Muslim Community
• What's Pork Got To Do With It?
• 5 Myths About American Muslims 10 Years After 9/11
• Nazish Noorani, Domestic Abuse And American Muslims
• A Ramadan Prayer
• The Question of Muslim Women's Rights