Maha Abdallah is a legal researcher and human rights advocate from Palestine. She is currently an International Advocacy Officer at the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), a regional organization working to promote human rights in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Prior to that, Maha served as a Senior Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer at Al-Haq, a Palestinian non-governmental human rights organization. In her legal research, Maha focuses substantially on the involvement of corporations and the private sector in violations committed in situations of conflict and occupation, including economic, social, and cultural rights violations. In November 2017, Maha received her LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights in Galway. Prior to that, between July 2013 and August 2016, Maha worked as a Research Associate at Al-Haq. In 2013, Maha graduated from The American University in Cairo with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. Following her undergraduate studies, Maha joined the Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA) in Cairo as an intern legal advisor where she represented refugees from many different nations.
