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Sahar Aziz is a professor of law at the Texas A&M University School of Law and a nonresident fellow at the Brookings Doha Center. She specializes in national security, civil rights, and Middle East law. Aziz worked as a senior policy advisor for the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security prior to joining the faculty at Texas A&M University; she was also an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center from 2010 to 2011. Aziz has held associate positions with WilmerHale and Cohen Milstein Sellers and Toll; she clerked for the Honorable Andre M. Davis when he served on the U.S. District Court of the District of Maryland. She received her J.D., M.A., and B.Sc. from the University of Texas.

American academic and lawyer

Sahar F. Aziz is a distinguished professor of law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School.^[2] She is the founding director of the Center for Security, Race and Rights. Her groundbreaking book The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom explains why Muslims experience discrimination that mirrors racism against racial minorities rather than religious freedom.

Aziz argued that following the 9/11 attacks, the Muslim community living in the U.S. was deprived of full legal protection and of the full benefit of their civil rights.^[3]

Biography

Sahar F. Aziz was born in Cairo, Egypt and raised in the U.S.^[4] Aziz studied Middle East Studies at the University of Texas. She worked as clerk at the District Court of Maryland for Judge Andre M. Davis. Aziz also worked for private law firms as a litigation associate and at the United States Department of Homeland Security Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties before becoming a full time professor.^[5]

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Sahar Aziz

Sahar Aziz is a Professor of Law, Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. Professor Aziz’s scholarship adopts an interdisciplinary approach to examine intersections of national security, race, and civil rights with a focus on the adverse impact of national security laws and policies on racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in the U.S. Her research also investigates the relationship between authoritarianism, terrorism, and rule of law in Egypt. She is the founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Rights (csrr.rutgers.edu), a faculty affiliate of the African American Studies Department at Rutgers University-Newark, and a member of the Rutgers-Newark Chancellor’s Commission on Diversity and Transformation. Professor Aziz’s book, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom, examines how religious bigotry racializes immigrant Muslims through a historical and comparative approach. She was named a 2020 Middle Eastern and North African American Natio