Hilmi M. Zawati (Arabic: حلمي زواتي; born in 1953 in Nablus)Abdul-Fattah, Ali, “Ishraqah” Al-Ra’i Al-Aam, Monday, 25 April 1994, p. 22; Babteen Encyclopaedia for contemporary Arab Poets, VI vols. (Kuwait: Babteen Association, 1995) II: 2, pp. 158-159; Ḥamadah, Muhammad Umar, A Bibliographical Dictionary of Palestinian Elders, III vols, (Dimashq : Dār Qutaybah, 1985) II: 215-217. is an international criminal law and human rights jurist, Professor of Criminal Law, and Former Chair at the Center for Justice and Accountability (CIAJ).
Zawati has been a speaker and author on a number of hotly debated legal issues.Mustafa, Shakir, Investigating the Complete Literary works of Hilmi Zawati, El-Masri, 22 September 2000, p. 21; Sumrain, Raja, "Semantic features of Hilmi Zawati Poetry", in R. Sumrain, Taht al-Mijhar: Majmu’a min al-Abhath wal-Maqalat al-Naqdiyya (Amman: Dar al-Yara’, 2003) pp. 93-153; Sadduq, Radi, Palestine Poets in the Twentieth Century (Beirut: al-Mu’ssasah al-Arabiyya lil-Dirasat wal-Nashr, 2000) pp. 204-205. He has addressed major academic and professional gatherings in a number of Middle Eastern countries, Africa, Europe, the United States, and in Canada. His current primary teaching and research areas are: International Criminal Law; International Gender Justice System; International Human Rights Law; Islamic Law of Nations (siyar); and International Environmental Law of Armed Conflict.
Select Bibliography Fair Labelling and the Dilemma of Prosecuting Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Tribunals, 2014. The Triumph of Ethnic Hatred and the Failure of International Political Will: Gendered Violence and Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, 2010. Selected Socio-Legal Bibliography on Ethnic Cleansing, Wartime Rape, and Genocide in the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, with Ibtisam M. Mahmoud, 2004 Tarfud al-Sarj al-Jiyad [The Horses Reject the Saddle], 1982. Qublah Ala Jabin al-Shams [A Kiss on the Face of the Sun], 1979. Inaq al-Mawt [The Hug of the Death], 1977. Bil-Hirab Ala Wajh al-Daya' (With Daggers on the Face of Homelessness], 1976. Abir al-Dima’ [Fragrance of Blood], 1973.
References
External links Diwan al-Arab, 8 July 2006. (in Arabic). Universal Encyclopedia of Arabic Poetry, 3 April 2008. (in Arabic). Ministry of Culture , Jordan, 30 September 2010 (in Arabic).