Rama SAHTOUT

Dr Rama Sahtout is a Palestinian- British academic and a legal scholar. She is a
lecturer at the Law School and the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the
University of Exeter. Her research is interdisciplinary engaging with law,
politics, and Middle East Studies. Rama's is specialised in international refugee
law and her primary focus is on the role and limitations of International Refugee
law in protecting refugees in large-scale refugee situations with a focus on the
Middle East. Her broad research area includes international law, human right
law decolonial/postcolonial theory. She has published on issues related to
refugee law, Palestinian refugees, Syrian refugees, and the question of IDPs in
Syria, and currently working on a monograph based on her PhD thesis. She is a
member and an expert on the Question of Palestine Program- ARDD, and a
member of the Refugee law Initiative- School of Advanced Studies. Rama holds
a BA in Law from Damascus University, an LLM in international law and a
PhD in Law from Exeter University- UK.