Please join The Canadian Club of Toronto on Tuesday, February 22nd when Don Newman, veteran broadcast journalist and former host of CBC’s Politics with Don Newman moderates a timely panel discussion with Mohammad Fadel, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Toronto and Counsel at Bennett Jones; Mokhtar Lamani, Moroccan diplomat and former ambassador of the Arab League to Iraq; and Michael Bell, former Ambassador to Jordan, Egypt, and Israel regarding the developments in Egypt and freedom in the Middle East.
Mokhtar Lamani was a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Previously, he served as Ambassador Special Representative of the Arab League in Iraq, appointed by the Council of Arab Heads of States in March2006. On behalf of the Arab League, he worked to reconcile fractious parties and sectarian groups in Iraq while building peaceful relations between Iraq and neighboring countries. Prior to his position as Special Representative, Mr. Lamani was visiting lecturer at universities across the West and Islamic regions from 2005-2006.
As Ambassador of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to the United Nations from 1998-2004, Mokhtar Lamani represented the OIC to the UN and Coordinator of the OIC group in New York. He also co-conducted the joint UN-OIC Mission in Afghanistan in 1998. His distinguished career in international diplomacy includes a number of positions with the General Secretariat and with the Arab League, including Deputy Permanent Observer to the UN, Officer in Charge of Iraq-Kuwait dispute, Coordinator of Secretariat Reform, and Coordinator of the Euro-Arab Dialogue and Afro-Arab Cooperation.
Mohammad H. Fadel joined the Faculty of Law in January 2006. He received his B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs (1988), a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago (1995) and his J.D. from the University of Virginia (1999). Prior to law school, Professor Fadel completed his Ph.D in Chicago, where he wrote his dissertation on legal process in medieval Islamic law. Professor Fadel was admitted to the Bar of New York in 2000 and the Bar of Ontario in 2009. He practiced law with the firm of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York, New York, where he worked on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions and securities-related regulatory investigations. In addition, Professor Fadel served as a law clerk to the Honorable Paul V. Niemeyer of the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit and the Honorable Anthony A. Alaimo of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Professor Fadel has published numerous articles in Islamic legal history. He is also Counsel at Bennett Jones.
Michael Bell teaches at the University of Windsor. He is Co-director of the Jerusalem Old City Initiative. Former chair of the Donor Committee of the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq, he spent 36 years in the Canadian Foreign Service, serving as Ambassador to Jordan (1987-90), Egypt (1994-98), and Israel (1990-92 and 1999-2003).
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