Bassam Khawaja
Deputy Director, Middle East and North Africa, @HRW.org
Senior Fellow, Human Rights Institute, Columbia Law School
Counsel to Human Rights & Privatization Project, NYU Law
- HRW: Egyptian authorities during 2025 systematically dismantled basic freedoms and suffocated civic space. Economic crises, coupled with authorities’ underfunding of public services like education and health care, undermined people’s socioeconomic rights www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
- HRW: Israeli forces escalated their atrocities in 2025, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, acts of genocide, and ethnic cleansing. Israeli forces killed, maimed, starved, and forcibly displaced Palestinians and destroyed their homes www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...
